Benign Quote by Bernard Holland

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

— Hans von Bulow

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

— Bryan White

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

— David Sanborn

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part -…

— Emmylou Harris

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

— Jose Carreras

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

— Alec Guinness

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

— Marcello Giordani

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

— Jimmy Somerville

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

— Bobby Short

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the…

— Alfredo Kraus

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

— Jerome Richardson