Tenor Quotes
64 Tenor quotes by 54 unique authors
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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
— Gerry Mulligan
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Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
— Bobby Short
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No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes…
— Richard Halliburton
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
— Adam Weishaupt
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when…
— Billy Eckstine
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
— George Bernard Shaw
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[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
— Bill Monroe
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
— Robert Plant
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Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
— Ned Sublette
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I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
— Luciano Pavarotti
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When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
— Placido Domingo
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My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an…
— Clare Bowen
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My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
— David Johansen
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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow…
— Billie Burke
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I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked…
— Jerome Richardson
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You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some…
— Jerome Richardson
Who Wrote These Tenor Quotes
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