Placido Domingo

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

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

The public is a part of my real life.

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

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

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

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

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

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

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The high note is not the only thing.

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

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

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

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