Placido Domingo Quotes

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Society
  • Easy

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• I am an inventor of music.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Inventor

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• I am always relaxed.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Relaxed

• Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Family
  • Week

• With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Team
  • Sometimes
  • Win

• When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Rest

• Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one... My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Failure
  • Son

• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Psychology

• There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Drunk
  • Anonymous

• If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

  

  Alexis Korner
  • Time

• So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Perspective
  • Tradition
  • Europe

• Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • History

• Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Done
  • Movie

• When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

  

  Placido Domingo