Baritones Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  School, People, Band

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• 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

  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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• I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mature, Late

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• I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.

  Robert Davi

  First Love, Guy, Singing

  "Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• 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

  Wish, Dip, Range

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

  David Bowie

  Player, Years, Band

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• 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

  Sweet, Singing, Oboes

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

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• Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

  Richard Thompson

  Lying, Home, Writing

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• On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

  Frank Zappa

  Outer Space, Lows, Planets

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