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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

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.

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

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

I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

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

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!

An operatic voice is like no other.