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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
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player. -- Gerry Mulligan
I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper. -- Eric Taylor
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
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. -- George Bernard Shaw
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. -- Placido Domingo
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
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
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
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
When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie. ... I was singing folk songs at that time. -- Joni Mitchell
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature." -- Anton Chekhov
There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo. -- Grace Jones
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they. -- Walt Whitman
Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet. -- Robert Benchley
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. -- John Cheever
I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone. -- Quincy Jones

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