Quotes By Placido Domingo

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

My strength is my enthusiasm.

The public is a part of my real life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

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

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.

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

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

The high note is not the only thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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