Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but…

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…

— David S. Ware

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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

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…

— Steve Lacy

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,…

— Mark Ronson

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

— Frank Zappa

I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone…

— Robert Davi

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

— 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…

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Joe Bastianich

No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!

— Pepper Adams

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…

— Grace Jones

As a small girl I enjoyed singing with my mother's brother. He taught me all kinds of melodies and I sang the ones I…

— Mirella Freni

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…

— Sam Elliott