Placido Domingo Quotes

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

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

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• In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• I feel at home in an orchestral score.

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

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• I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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Placido Domingo (38)

Birth:	21st January, 1941
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Actor, Music Conductor, Producer, Singer

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