Tenor Quotes

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

— Bill Monroe

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

— Denis Norden

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

— Robert Plant

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

— Alec Guinness

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

— Sean Price

Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.

— Bruno Sammartino

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

— Hans von Bulow

I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.

— Jimmy Somerville

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

— David Sanborn

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

— Mason Cooley

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

— Bobby Short

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare…

— Marcello Giordani

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who…

— Henry Ford

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

— Jose Carreras

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

— Coleman Hawkins

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than…

— Thomas Jefferson

I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to…

— Linda Ronstadt

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one…

— Jerome Richardson

'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that…

— Kevin Bleyer

“Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans, there are sopranos in the…

— Sean Thomas Dougherty

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go…

— Evelyn Waugh

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and…

— Coleman Hawkins

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was…

— Van Morrison

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed…

— Josh Young

I bought a tenor but I haven't dedicated the time to it, plus I haven't found a mouthpiece that I like as…

— Charles McPherson

Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision…

— David S. Ware

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor,…

— Sam Elliott

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

— Luciano Pavarotti

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

— Marcello Giordani

Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man…

— Henry Ford

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

— Gerry Mulligan

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

— Johnny Cash

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man…

— Henry Ford

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

— Placido Domingo

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Gerry Mulligan

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Gerry Mulligan

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous