Top 22 Baritone Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Baritone Quotes from famous people such as Steve Lacy, Lou Barlow, Tina Brown, Bobby Keys, Quincy Jones, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.
Lou Barlow
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
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
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
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
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan
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
You can’t sing baritone when you’re a soprano.
Jim Crace
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
Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.
Johnny Olson
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
Richard Corliss
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
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
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
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
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Placido Domingo
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 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
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan
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
I’m a baritone. Baritones don’t mature until late.
Joe Bastianich