Dedicated Quote by Charles McPherson

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

— Gerry Mulligan

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

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

— Gerry Mulligan

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

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't…

— Coleman Hawkins

Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too,…

— Art Pepper

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

— David Sanborn

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Bryan White

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

— Gerry Mulligan

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

— Bernard Holland

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

— Jose Carreras