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" When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. "
Placido Domingo
Five
Some
Nothing
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" The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. "
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" If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. "
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" I feel at home in an orchestral score. "
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" The public is a part of my real life. "
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" When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. "
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" But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. "
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" We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. "
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" I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18. "
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" 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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" The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. "
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" Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. "
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" But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life. "
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" 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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" I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. "
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" 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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" I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys. "
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" I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. "
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" Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? "
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" In the last century, everybody was singing lower. "
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" With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. "
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" I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities. "
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" 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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