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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.”

Men Hero Musical Shakes Spokes Shaking Funk Funky Booty Herons Baritones

Author:Will Hermes

“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.”

Song Voice Elements Approach Instruments Intensity Violin Flutes Tenors Sopranos Clarinet Baritones

Author:Steve Lacy

“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.”

“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.”

Eye Force Voice Natural Havens Enthusiasm Brown Vitality Brown Eyes Baritones

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”

Habit Singers Supper Baritones

Author:Eric Taylor

“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.”

People School Band High School Notes Saxophone Baritones School Band

Author:Bobby Keys

“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.”

People World Wells Looks Reason Young Sex Numbers Marriage Married Opposites Green Divorce Surface Proportion Jersey Getting Married Baritones

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“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.”

God Please Red Fats Suits Contentment Baritones

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“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.”

Wells Doe Mother Stars Voice Church Records Musician My Family Opposites Singers Solo Sopranos Baritones

Author:Grace Jones

“Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.”

Knows Years Firsts Wells Decision Steps Groups Regret Listening Couple Moved Focused First Steps Tenors Coltrane Baritones

Author:David S. Ware

“The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.”

Firsts Made Two Ideas Play Wanted Sides Late Instruments Active Bridges Strings Melody Nuts Two Sides Rail Tuning Pickups Implementing Baritones

Author:Greg Howard

“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.”

Art Play School Song Teaching Months Six Singing Folks Six Months Belts Art School Novices Ukulele Folk Songs Baritones

Author:Joni Mitchell

“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.”

Ifs Writing Trying Sometimes Play Home Lying Interesting Plans Picks Sitting Seven Guitar Leaving Including Various Eight Laziness Interesting Things Acoustics Sitting Around Baritones

Author:Richard Thompson

“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.”

Sweet Music Is Singing Instruments Singers Score Violin Chorus Baritones Oboes

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

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

Years Littles Wanted Player Band Baritones

Author:David Bowie

“You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.”

Knows Firsts Used Causes Records Nice First Time Tone Compliment Texture Baritones

Author:Mark Ronson

“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.”

Wish Range Dip Tenors Baritones

Author:Colin Meloy

“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.”

World Firsts Enough Guy Singing Opera Frank First Love Florence Brando Baritones Tito

Author:Robert Davi

“When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.”

Men Firsts Kids Mother Turns Father Saws Husband Understood Bob Saxophone Baritones

Author:Jon Gordon

“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.”

Play Instruments Sexy Acknowledge Horns Baritones Tubas

Author:Steve Carell

“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Sound Voice Rocks Singing Butterfly Gloomy Unicorn Baritones

Author:Bryce Dessner

“In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.”

Way Player Mulligans Baritones

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Voice Instruments Logical Orchestra Symphony Saxophone Symphony Orchestras Baritones

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing”

Function Tenors Mulligans Baritones

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone”

Saved Mulligans Baritones

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.”

Want Opera Making Love Tenors Sopranos Baritones

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.”

Music Music Is Instruments Baritones

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“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."”

Ifs Looks Eye Literature Work Answers Gold Bright Eyes Baritones

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

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

Late Mature Baritones

Author:Joe Bastianich

“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.”

Kind Bigs Sound Voice Pieces Grew Appreciation Revival Tenors Baritones

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“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.”

Spiritual Religion Prayer Wonder Praise Smell Apples Bless Spiritual Life Adore Our Prayers Glorify Aisle Pretty Woman Bowels Baritones

Author:John Cheever

“When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.”

Men Whole Young Range Young Man Possessing Tenors Baritones

Author:Placido Domingo

“On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.”

Planets Lows Outer Space Baritones

Author:Frank Zappa