Soprano Quotes

31 quotes by 25 authors

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument… — Stan Getz
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course,… — Stan Getz
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed… — James Weldon Johnson
What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten… — Melissa Rosenberg
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you… — Thomas Beecham
I really wanted to be an opera soprano. — Maureen O'Hara
I love to sing. I'm a soprano. — Sara Paretsky
I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed. — Len Cariou
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an… — Clare Bowen
Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. — Lesley Garrett
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over… — Victoria Clark
You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some… — Jerome Richardson
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… — Steve Lacy
We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no… — Cintra Wilson
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. — John F. Kerry
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. — Steve Lacy
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. — Steve Lacy
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that… — Steve Lacy
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. â€¦ It is a kind of talent in itself, to… — Ann Patchett

Who Wrote These Soprano Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 31 Soprano Quotes as follows: