Tenor Quotes

64 Tenor quotes by 54 unique authors

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. — Bobby Short
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
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
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
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
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw
[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
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. — Bill Monroe
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. — Robert Plant
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
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
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
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself. — Luciano Pavarotti
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. — Placido Domingo
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
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. — David Johansen
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
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
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

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