"Only the French, I guess, really use tenor……" — Gerry Mulligan

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• Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar. — Stephen King
• Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. — Gerry Mulligan
• The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing — Gerry Mulligan
• So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone — Gerry Mulligan
• I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom… — Walter Isaacson
• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as… — Gavin Bryars
• My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed… — Robert Metcalfe
• You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in… — David Karp
• I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. — Eric Allin Cornell
• Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto… — Will Hermes
• I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me… — Jerome Richardson
• I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in… — Quincy Jones

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