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“When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.”
“This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.”
“We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.”
“With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.”
“But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.”
“Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.”
“When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.”
“If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.”
“I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.”
“I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.”
“Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.”
“Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?”
“When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.”
“To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.”
“Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.”
“Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.”
“The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.”
“I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.”
“I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.”
“It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.”
“Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.”
“The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.”