Soprano Quotes
31 Soprano quotes by 25 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
— Maureen O'Hara
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
— Sara Paretsky
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I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.
— Len Cariou
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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
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
— Lesley Garrett
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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
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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
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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…
— Steve Lacy
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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
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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
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
— Steve Lacy
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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
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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
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Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to…
— Ann Patchett
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
— Ann Patchett
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Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if…
— Rick Riordan
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And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.
— Alexandra Potter
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He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with…
— Kevin Hearne
Who Wrote These Soprano Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 31 Soprano Quotes as follows: