Placido Domingo famous quotes

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.
-- Placido Domingo

#Passion #Levels #Share

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

#Music #Notes

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
-- Placido Domingo

#Voice #Long #Singing

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
-- Placido Domingo

#Appreciation #Joy #Half

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.
-- Placido Domingo

#Trying #Singers #Sound

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

#Color #Voice #Singing

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
-- Placido Domingo

#Possibility

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

#Want #Steps #Half

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
-- Placido Domingo

#Singing #Lasts #Century

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
-- Placido Domingo

#Men #Young #Tenors

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
-- Placido Domingo

#Talking

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

#Voice #Roles #Niche

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
-- Placido Domingo

#Artist #Young #Limelight

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
-- Placido Domingo

#Orchestra

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
-- Placido Domingo

#Eye #Ballet #Opera

The public is a part of my real life.
-- Placido Domingo

#Real #Real Life

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
-- Placido Domingo

#Ambition #Demand #Financial

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

#Eight #Four #Young

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
-- Placido Domingo

#Years #Made #My Future

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
-- Placido Domingo

#Fall #Careers #Giving

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

#Orchestra #Minutes

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
-- Placido Domingo

#Thinking #Careers #Stills

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

#Piano #Reduction #Score

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
-- Placido Domingo

#Careers #Expecting #Conducting

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
-- Placido Domingo

#Stress #Hands #Energy

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
-- Placido Domingo

#Motivational #Money #Organize

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.
-- Placido Domingo

#Luck #Bad Luck #Superstitious

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
-- Placido Domingo

#Destiny #Shoulders #Broads

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
-- Placido Domingo

#Voice #Piano #Preparation

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

#Video #Singers #Young

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
-- Placido Domingo

#Emotional #Voice #Worry

Singing becomes a form of therapy.
-- Placido Domingo

#Singing #Form #Therapy

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
-- Placido Domingo

#Oxygen #Atmosphere #Theater

My strength is my enthusiasm.
-- Placido Domingo

#Strength #Enthusiasm

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
-- Placido Domingo

#Average #Three #Stage

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
-- Placido Domingo

#Singing #Enough

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
-- Placido Domingo

#Opera #Concerts #More Money

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
-- Placido Domingo

#Years #Two #Space

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
-- Placido Domingo

#Father #Married #Divorced

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

#Boys #Littles #Toys

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
-- Placido Domingo

#Cities #Two #Years

I feel at home in an orchestral score.
-- Placido Domingo

#Home #Score #Feels