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Placido Domingo [1941-0] Spanish

Rank: 102
Musician, Tenor

José Plácido Domingo Embil, KBE, known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world.

Alone, Health, Home, Money, Strength, Thankful

Quote	Tags	Rank
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.	Alone	101
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.	Money	102
My strength is my enthusiasm.	Strength	103
I feel at home in an orchestral score.	Home	104
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.	Health	105
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.		106
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.		107
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.		108
The public is a part of my real life.		109
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.		110
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.		111
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.		112
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.	Thankful	113
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.		114
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.		115
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.		116
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.		117
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?		118
Singing becomes a form of therapy.		119
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.		120
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.		121
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.		122
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.		123
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.		124
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.		125
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.		126
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.		201
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.		202
The high note is not the only thing.		203
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.		204
This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.		205
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.		206
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.		207
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.		208
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.		209
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.		210
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.		211
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.		212

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