Placido Domingo Quotes

"We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Destiny)

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Public)

"The high note is not the only thing."
- Placido Domingo

"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Financial, Press)

"The public is a part of my real life."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Life, Public)

"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Future, Now, Public, Years)

"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Health, Voice)

"This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Beginning, Career, Games)

"Singing becomes a form of therapy."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Singing, Therapy)

"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Day, Talking)

"Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: God, Career, Tomorrow)

"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Artist)

"When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Nothing, Orchestras)

"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Man)

"When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session."
- Placido Domingo

"With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Preparation, Voice)

"Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was."
- Placido Domingo

"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Old, Voice)

"This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors."
- Placido Domingo

"I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction."
- Placido Domingo

"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Life, Singing)

"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Opera, Singing, Voice)

"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Career)

"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Public)

"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Possibilities, Wrong)

"The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Theater)

"I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys."
- Placido Domingo

"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Charm, Colors, Singing, Voice)

"I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Father)

"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Career, Will)

"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Money, Motivation)

"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Singing)

"It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Fortune, Space, Years)

"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Money, Performance, Opera)

"My strength is my enthusiasm."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Enthusiasm, Strength)

"On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Being, Energy, Stress)

"I feel at home in an orchestral score."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Home)