Placido Domingo Quotes

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• I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
• I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.
• We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
• With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
• Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
• Singing becomes a form of therapy.
• 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…
• But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
• But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
• Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
• My strength is my enthusiasm.
• When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.
• The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
• Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.
• The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
• Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
• When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
• To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
• I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
• Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

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