Placido Domingo Quotes

30 quotations by Placido Domingo

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

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

Resting becomes a discipline in itself.

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.

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

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

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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

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

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

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.

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

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

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

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

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

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

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

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

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.