Placido Domingo

“With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.”

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

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

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

“I feel at home in an orchestral score.”

“When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.”

“My strength is my enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The high note is not the only thing.”

“Singing becomes a form of therapy.”

“The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.”

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

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