Placido Quotes & Sayings

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. — Placido Domingo

I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess. — Violante Placido

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

The high note is not the only thing. — Placido Domingo

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

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies. — Violante Placido

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. — Placido Domingo

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

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

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. — Placido Domingo

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. — Placido Domingo

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact. — Andrea Bocelli

When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck.' — Violante Placido

The public is a part of my real life. — Placido Domingo

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

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.' — David Harewood

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

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck. — Placido Domingo

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. — Placido Domingo

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

I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. — Linda Ronstadt

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

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. — Placido Domingo

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

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities. — Placido Domingo

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

In the last century, everybody was singing lower. — Placido Domingo

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. — Placido Domingo

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

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career. — Placido Domingo

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

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. — Violante Placido

Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy, except it's real. — Violante Placido

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action. — Violante Placido

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

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences. — Violante Placido

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

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

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson ... and Placido Domingo. — Josh Young

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

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

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

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home. — Violante Placido

I feel at home in an orchestral score. — Placido Domingo

I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination. — Violante Placido

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. — Placido Domingo

Each country is strong on some tradition. — Violante Placido

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story. — Violante Placido

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

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

Singing becomes a form of therapy. — Placido Domingo

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen. — Placido Domingo

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. — Placido Domingo

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. — Violante Placido

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

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

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

My strength is my enthusiasm. — Placido Domingo