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I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late. -- Joe Bastianich
On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low. -- Frank Zappa
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. -- Jim Crace
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player. -- Gerry Mulligan
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. -- Gerry Mulligan
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone. -- Gerry Mulligan
Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear. -- Johnny Olson
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. -- Placido Domingo
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. -- Steve Lacy
Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous. -- Tina Brown
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. -- Quincy Jones
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. -- Lee Ritenour
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes. -- Bobby Keys
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty. -- Will Hermes
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them. -- Terry Teachout
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife. -- Steve Carell
When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.' -- Heber J. Grant
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those! -- Katherine Jenkins
No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't! -- Pepper Adams
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing -- Gerry Mulligan
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone -- Gerry Mulligan
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band. -- David Bowie
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. -- George Bernard Shaw
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone. -- Anne Sexton
I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it. -- Colin Meloy
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra. -- Gerry Mulligan
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes. -- Bobby Keys

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