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" It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. "
Placido Domingo
Space
Make
Strange
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" The public is a part of my real life. "
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Part
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" If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. "
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Motivation
Differently
Myself
" Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. "
Placido Domingo
Money
More
Performance
" Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. "
Placido Domingo
I Am
Stage
Three
" The high note is not the only thing. "
Placido Domingo
Note
Only
Thing
" 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
Never
Voice
Singing
" The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. "
Placido Domingo
Made
Me
Public
" This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. "
Placido Domingo
I Am
Young
Season
" 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
Old
Intensity
I Am
" With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. "
Placido Domingo
Voice
Preparation
Hum
" I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. "
Placido Domingo
City
Years
Two
" I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys. "
Placido Domingo
Feel
Toys
New
" I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18. "
Placido Domingo
Married
Father
Divorced
" When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. "
Placido Domingo
Young Man
Far
Man
" But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life. "
Placido Domingo
Enough
Singing
My Life
" I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. "
Placido Domingo
Career
Prove
Me
" On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there. "
Placido Domingo
Accept
Stress
Hand
" When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. "
Placido Domingo
Him
Ready
Artist
" This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career. "
Placido Domingo
Circus
Since
Games
" I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. "
Placido Domingo
Always
Score
Reduction
" The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. "
Placido Domingo
Demands
Regularly
Financial
" But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. "
Placido Domingo
Long
Voice
Singing
" To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. "
Placido Domingo
Day
Stop
Best
" Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step. "
Placido Domingo
Down
Hear
Me
" I feel at home in an orchestral score. "
Placido Domingo
Score
Feel
I Feel
" Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? "
Placido Domingo
Think
Still
Working
" When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. "
Placido Domingo
Five
Some
Nothing
" I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities. "
Placido Domingo
Wrong
Never
Possibilities
" In the last century, everybody was singing lower. "
Placido Domingo
Singing
Lower
Century
" Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. "
Placido Domingo
Tomorrow
God
Fall