Count Quote by Denis Norden

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

— Jimmy Somerville

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Bobby Short

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

— Gerry Mulligan

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

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

— 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

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing…

— Henry Ford

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

— George Bernard Shaw

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along.…

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Coleman Hawkins

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

— Bill Monroe

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…

— Jerome Richardson

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

— Hans von Bulow

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because…

— Mstislav Rostropovich