Placido Domingo Quotes

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When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

Placido Domingo

Passion, Levels, Share

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What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

Placido Domingo

Done, Able, Today

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The high note is not the only thing.

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Music, Crafts, Notes

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I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

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Possibility

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I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

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Appreciation, Joy, Half

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

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Fate, Destiny, Broads

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My strength is my enthusiasm.

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Strength, Enthusiasm

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Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

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Trying, Sound, Singers

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When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

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Artist, Limelight, Young

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

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Emotional, Voice, Worry

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I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

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Luck, Bad Luck, Superstitious

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

Placido Domingo

Singing, Joking Around, Enough

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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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Color, Voice, Singing

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The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

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Oxygen, Atmosphere, Theater

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

Placido Domingo

Boys, Littles, Toys

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

Placido Domingo

Opera, Concerts, More Money

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

Placido Domingo

Talking

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

Placido Domingo

Stress, Hands, Energy

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Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

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Video, Singers, Young

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Singing becomes a form of therapy.

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Singing, Form, Therapy

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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.

Placido Domingo

Voice, Roles, Niche

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When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

Placido Domingo

Eye, Ballet, Musician

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The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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Ambition, Demand, Financial

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

Placido Domingo

Orchestra, Five

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

Placido Domingo

Years, Two, Space

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Born: January 21, 1941
Occupation: Conductor
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