Quotes By Placido Domingo

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

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

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

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

My strength is my enthusiasm.

The public is a part of my real life.

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

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

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.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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

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

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

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

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

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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

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

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

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

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

The high note is not the only thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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