Top 40 Placido Domingo Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Singing becomes a form of therapy.”

— Placido Domingo

2. “When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.”

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3. “My strength is my enthusiasm.”

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4. “The high note is not the only thing.”

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

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

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7. “On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.”

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8. “I’m not superstitious because it brings bad luck.”

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

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10. “But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.”

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

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

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

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14. “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.”

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

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

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17. “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.”

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18. “I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.”

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19. “This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.”

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

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

— Placido Domingo

22. “In the last century, everybody was singing lower.”

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

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24. “I feel at home in an orchestral score.”

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25. “Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.”

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

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27. “I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.”

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

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29. “Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.”

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

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

— Placido Domingo

32. “The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.”

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33. “The public is a part of my real life.”

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

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

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36. “What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that – when you were able – you did it to the best of your ability.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.”

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

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

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

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

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