Ability Quote by Jimmy Somerville

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

— Bryan White

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

— Placido Domingo

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

— Hans von Bulow

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

— Edward Abbey

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

— Luciano Pavarotti

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

— Denis Norden

I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

— Lewis Capaldi

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.

— Philip Bailey

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

— Frank Zappa

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

— Colin Meloy

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They…

— Fergie

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

— K. J. Yesudas