Soprano Quotes

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. (Lesley Garrett)
I love to sing. I'm a soprano. View quote
Sara Paretsky
I must be the oldest living child soprano. View quote
Kathryn Grayson
I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano. View quote
Walther Funk
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 I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week. View quote
Rick Riordan
I really wanted to be an opera soprano. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
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 guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so! View quote
Jerome Richardson
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 that is outside of your body. View quote
Stan Getz
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. View quote
Steve Lacy
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. View quote
Steve Lacy
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. (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 at first. View quote
Steve Lacy
We take pleasure in watching an athlete break a record, hearing a soprano in full flight, or reading a philosopher of depth and insight. Human accomplishment is the ultimate spectator sport. Apply as much historical analysis to it as we wish, and we'll not unlock all its mysteries. The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. View quote
Denis Dutton
With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that. View quote
Van Morrison
Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. View quote
Lord Byron
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. ... It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. View quote
Ann Patchett
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. View quote
Mstislav Rostropovich
As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work. View quote
Anna Netrebko
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 Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet. View quote
Clare Bowen
I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. View quote
Jo Stafford
I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed. (Len Cariou)
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 ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles. View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano. View quote
Steve Lacy
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 the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career. View quote
Victoria Clark
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral. View quote
George Ade