I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Clément Mathieu: [talking to Mondain] Sing! Mondain: You won't like it. Clément Mathieu: I don't care sing! Mondain: Okay... [singing] Mondain: One Summer, I took out my nob, and gave myself a nice handjob... [inhales as if to sing another line] Cl...
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Lieutenant John Chard: Good. I can find work for baritones as well as tenors.
Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 o...
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.
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....
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.
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.
[Chabert is dragging a boy off for punishment] Clément Mathieu: What are you doing? Chabert: He stole my watch. From my room. Clément Mathieu: Where are you taking him? Chabert: Dungeon. Clément Mathieu: Wait! Chabert: Why? [Chabert and the boy di...
Sergeant Windridge: Owen! Pte. Owen: Yes, Sergeant? Sergeant Windridge: You've got a voice haven't you? Pte. Owen: Yes, baritone, Sergeant. Sergeant Windridge: Well get up on that hill and sing out if you see anything. You too. And take your bandook,...
Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and bas...
