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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Sara Paretsky / Author
Sing
Soprano
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I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
Maureen O'hara / Film Actress
Opera
Sopranos
Wanted
Soprano
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I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.
Donna Lynne Champlin /
Soprano
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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
Jim Crace / Writer
Baritone
Soprano
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I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!
Lesley Manville /
Champion
Soprano
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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
Steve Lacy / Saxophonist
Right Hand
Soprano
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I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais.
Kristine Opolais /
Soprano
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett / Singer
Andrew
Inspired
Sopranos
Me Nobody More
Herself
Julie
Julie Andrews
Soprano
Trained
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I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.
Anthony Warlow / Music Performer
Soprano
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A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
Montserrat Caballe / Operatic Soprano
Cry
Human Beings
Attracts
Beings
Soprano
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
Steve Lacy / Saxophonist
Heard
Pieces
Play
Saxophone
Duke
Fell
Piece
Soprano
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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 / Actor
Boys
Sopranos
Voice
Soprano
Trained
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Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.
Terence Winter / Writer
Glamorous
Soprano
Tony
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My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.
Ravyn Lenae /
Grandfather
Panama
Soprano
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I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.
Alexander Chee / Fiction Writer
Choir
Date
Soprano
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You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
Christopher Miller /
Dramas
Soprano
Tony
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When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.
Lee Ranaldo / Musician
Bass
Chorus
High School
Singing
School High School High
Alto
Singing School High School
Grade
Grade School
Soprano
Tenor
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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 / United States Secretary Of State
Country
Fiscal Responsibility
Law
Law And Order
Little Bit
Order
President
Responsibility
Talking
Fiscal
Soprano
Tony
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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 / Saxophonist
Imagination
Saxophone
Up To You
Years
Astounding
Limit
Possibilities
Soprano
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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 at first.
Steve Lacy / Saxophonist
Firsts
Saxophone
Trying
Soprano
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
Barbra Streisand / Singer-Songwriter
Sister
Bird
Soprano
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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.
Anna Netrebko / Operatic Soprano
Notes
Lots
No Problems
Problems
Sings
Soprano
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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 the singing very much.
James Weldon Johnson / Author
Choir
Enjoyed
Possessed
Member
Soprano
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I think I have got a peculiar voice really, it neither one thing nor the other. It's not a contralto and it's not a mezzo soprano; it's a nothing voice really.
Vera Lynn /
Peculiar
Neither
Nor
Soprano
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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 guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!
Jerome Richardson / Musician
Guy
Play
Thinking
Concept
Flute
Soprano
Tenor
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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 the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy / Saxophonist
Approach
Clarinet
Elements
Instruments
Intensity
Song
Violin
Voice
Baritone
Flute
Soprano
Tenor
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I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.
Shamir /
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Notes
Range
Time Myself Long
Hit
Baritone
Different People
Duet
Sing
Soprano
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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 that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz / Saxophonist
Body
Challenges
Imperfect
Intonation
Saxophone
Your Body
As Far As
Challenge
Instrument
Outside
Sing
Soprano
Tenor
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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.
Jo Stafford / Singer
Hiring
Opera
Singers
Soprano
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I did classical singing at school. I did exams in that. I'd sing soprano, and we'd sing in German; we'd do Schubert for my pieces, in Latin, French... I really enjoyed that. I kind of miss it.
Jorja Smith /
Enjoyed
Latin
Schubert
Singing
German
Miss
Classical
French
Exams
Soprano
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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 Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
Clare Bowen / Actress
Encouraging
Beautiful
Grandfather
Grandmother
Grandparent
Singers
Quartet
Soprano
Tenor
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The nature of television is that it's a beast with a lot of opinions. I don't consider myself typecast any more than Neil Patrick Harris was as Doogie Howser or James Gandolifini is as Tony Soprano.
Jaleel White / Television Actor
Typecast
Harris
James
Neil
Opinions
Soprano
Tony
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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 the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
Victoria Clark / Theatre Actress
Careers
Haul
Long
Long Haul
Voice
Good Long Your
Different Kind
Lyric
Soprano
Sustain
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The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.
Alexander Chee / Fiction Writer
Autumn
Garden
Warm
Held
Palace
Soprano
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My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly.
Ian Gillan / Vocalist
Choir
Church
Deep Purple
Elements
Forget
Jazz
Jazz Musician
Musician
Never Forget
Opera
Purple
Boy
Brilliantly
Singer
Performance
Opera Singer
Soprano
Uncle
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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
Jessie Mueller /
Time Me Look
Bill
Time Look Me
Soprano
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Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
Alexander Chee / Fiction Writer
Delicate
Falcon
Endangered
La
Newly
Returned
Rumored
Silences
Soprano
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In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
Jessie Mueller /
Character
Hmm
Type
Time Me Look
Time Character Me
Category
Hard Time
Time Character Look
Putting
Realized
Soprano
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I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.
Alexander Chee / Fiction Writer
Losing
Profound
Singing
Adult
Life Moment Me
Male
Favorite
Favorite Things
Singing Voice
Soprano
Thus
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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.
Mstislav Rostropovich / Cellist
Feminine
Hero
Masculine
Register
Violin
Voice
Cello
Concerto
Instrument
Soprano
Tenor
Whereas
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I used to lie in bed and imagine I was performing at the Albert Hall, not that I'd ever been there. I took lessons with a German teacher when I was quite young. But it turned out I had a very high soprano voice, which I didn't like at all.
Anne Reid /
Teacher
Bed
Imagine
Lessons
Performing
Albert
German
Lie
Hall
Soprano
Turned
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I'd love to tackle a classic Shakespeare play or take on Nora Helmer in 'A Doll's House.' Musical theater, it's the classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate.' I'm much more a Julie Andrews-type soprano than an Idina Menzel.
Beth Behrs / Actress
Classic
Musical Theater
Love Me More
Classics
Doll
Hammerstein
Julie
Porter
Rodgers
Shakespeare
Soprano
Tackle
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I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'
Sharon Kay Penman / Novelist
Bird
Heard
Jersey
Jersey Shore
Shore
Television
Tree
Amuse
Certainly
Dead
Rest
Mosquito
Soprano
Tony
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I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'
Eugene Ionesco / Playwright
Exit
Bald
Previous
Soprano
Themes
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I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
Katherine Jenkins / Singer
Opera
Royal
Best Good Better
Baritone
Technically
Soprano
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Teacher
Choir
Singing
Me Voice Singing
Teacher Me Voice
Basement
Mr
Cappella
Embarrass
Sing
Soprano
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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 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.
Melissa Rosenberg / Screenwriter
Book
Comic
Not Talking
Roles
Sparks
Talking
Thinking
Comic Books
Complex
Gotten
Soprano
Tony
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