Quote by Bryan White

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

— Jimmy Somerville

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

— Edward Abbey

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

— Hans von Bulow

Tenors get women by the score.

— James Joyce

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

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

— Jose Carreras

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

— Placido Domingo

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

— Hozier

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

— Bobby Short

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

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