Instruments Quote by Coleman Hawkins

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

— David Sanborn

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

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Placido Domingo

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

— Sean Price

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

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

— Bryan White

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Jimmy Somerville

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

— Robert Plant

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

— Coleman Hawkins

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I…

— Bobby Keys