Quotes from Placido Domingo

The public is a part of my real life.

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

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

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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

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

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My strength is my enthusiasm.

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

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

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