Baritones Quote by Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

— Gerry Mulligan

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

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

— Placido Domingo

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

I'm a trained classical baritone.

— Alexander Armstrong

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

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

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

— Alec Guinness

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

— Eric Taylor

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.

— Philip Bailey