Quotes About Alto

Deutsch: My PhD thesis was a 600-page Lisp program. I'm a very heavy-duty Lisp hacker from PDP-1 Lisp, Alto Lisp, Byte Lisp, and Interlisp. The reason I don't program in Lisp anymore: I can't stand the syntax. It's just a fact of life that syntax matters.

I was an alto and was in a lot of choirs growing up.

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Tem certeza? É o ponto mais alto de Indiana. — Tenho certeza. É agora ou nunca, mas preciso saber se você vem comigo.

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

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

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.

Q: How many alto singers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. They can't reach that high.

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.

Tell her I asked after her." Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto.

Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto. Even when she was a little girl, her voice was like the middle of the night. When she gives a song, it isn't entertaining; rather, it sounds like she is telling secrets that are not hers to reveal.

Shockley Semiconductor in the San Francisco suburb of Mountain View, California, just down the street from Palo Alto

dropped the old name, Alto Aloha Network, in favor of a new phrase: the "ETHER Network." "If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day," says Metcalfe, "this was it.

La desgracia sólo alcanza su punto más alto cuando hemos visto, lo bastante cerca, la posibilidad práctica de la felicidad.