Placido Domingo Quotes

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

I use my voice as an instrument.

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Voice is my instrument.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then these really tiny laser highs if I want as well.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.