Quotes By Placido Domingo

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

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