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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
Jim Crace / Writer
Baritone
Soprano
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In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Mulligans
Player
Way
Baritone
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I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
Joe Bastianich / Restaurateur
Baritones
Late
Mature
Baritone
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When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Ukulele
Baritone
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So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Saved
Alto
Baritone
Quite A While
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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Alto
Baritone
Functions
Orchestral
Serve
Tenor
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Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Creepy
Baritone
Nixon
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When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Placido Domingo / Conductor
Men
Baritones
Possessing
Range
Young Man
Man Young Man Young
Baritone
Man Young Young Man
Tenor
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Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.
Johnny Olson / Television Personality
Average
Loud
Amplified
Baritone
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If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
Lou Barlow / Musician
Classic
Heavy
Strings
Ukulele
Warm
Baritone
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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 / Guitarist
Classical Guitar
Composition
Rhythm
Tuning
Unusual
Baritone
Classical
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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 / Saxophone Player
Band
Notes
Saxophone
Baritone
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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 / Journalist
Air
Authority
Pompous
Obama
Asset
Baritone
Maintain
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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 / Saxophonist
Approach
Clarinet
Elements
Instruments
Intensity
Song
Violin
Voice
Baritone
Flute
Soprano
Tenor
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I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.
Shamir /
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Notes
Range
Time Myself Long
Hit
Baritone
Different People
Duet
Sing
Soprano
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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 / Actor
Appreciation
Smile
Pieces
Sound
Voice
Baritone
Musicals
Tenor
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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 / Record Producer
French Horn
Orchestra
Percussion
Trombone
Baritone
French
Trumpet
Horn
Instrument
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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 / Actor
Acknowledge
Sexy
Baritone
Choose
Fife
Generally
Horn
Instrument
Least
Mini
Tuba
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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 / Broadcaster
Men
Funk
Hero
Musical
Time Truth Power
Baritone
Discovered
Jazzy
Primarily
Shake
Spoke
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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 / Critic
Christmas
Ballads
Familiar
Imagine
Performing
Stardust
Vocalist
Warm
Anyone Else
Baritone
Closely
Identified
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I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie / Musician
Easier
Manage
Technique
Afford
Alto
Baritone
Bought
Except
Gerry
Sax
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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 /
If I Could
Laughed
Perseverance
Secretary
Baritone
Tune
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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 / Singer
Opera
Royal
Best Good Better
Baritone
Technically
Soprano
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I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.
Ashley Walters / Rapper
Purpose
Seeing
Sole
Love Time Always
Baritone
Chat
Michael
Jackson
People Say
Sole Purpose
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My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.
Sam Elliott / Actor
Church
Anything Else
Baritone
Finally
Gotten
Hide
Instrument
Mouth
Recognized
Shut
Tenor
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
Patti Scialfa / Singer-Songwriter
Clip
Holiday
Looks
Lovely
Moments
Pianist
Radio
Television
Younger
Baritone
Bassist
Gerry
Mine
Museum
Sax
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