This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out. — Bryan White Copy Share Image
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be… — Alfredo Kraus Copy Share Image
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds… — Jerome Richardson Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life… — Bernard Holland Copy Share Image
![“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.” quote by Johnny Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/johnny-griffin-65875_band_my-grammar-school-graduating-class-in-19_1845972.png)
