Quotes By Placido Domingo

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

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

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

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

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.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

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

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.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.