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God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity. -- Marcello Giordani
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. -- Andy Serkis
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself. -- Luciano Pavarotti
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. -- Robert Plant
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice. -- Bill Monroe
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. -- Alec Guinness
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. -- David Johansen
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. -- Gerry Mulligan
When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music. -- Jose Carreras
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else. -- Coleman Hawkins
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. -- Placido Domingo
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. -- Evelyn Waugh
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. -- Charles Lyell
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. -- Van Morrison
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. -- Steve Lacy
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others. -- Andrea Bocelli
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. -- Stan Getz
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 think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. -- Coleman Hawkins
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 some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so! -- Jerome Richardson
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. -- Jonathan Sacks
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. -- Billy Eckstine
I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. -- Linda Ronstadt
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music. -- Andrea Bocelli
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
A tenor is not a man but a disease. -- Hans von Bulow
I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. -- Sean Price
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten. -- Denis Norden
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. -- Gerry Mulligan
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. -- Bobby Short
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing -- Gerry Mulligan
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. -- Mason Cooley
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra -- Gerry Mulligan
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. -- Gerry Mulligan
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. -- Beilby Porteus
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else -- Coleman Hawkins
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big. -- David Sanborn
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. -- George Bernard Shaw
I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice. -- Johnny Cash
By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny. -- Lynn Grabhorn
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. -- Paul Goodman
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. -- Evelyn Waugh
Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax. -- Ned Sublette
Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment. -- Samuel Johnson
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
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor. -- Henry Ford
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge. -- Adam Weishaupt
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. -- Billie Burke
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell. -- Dorothy Parker
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times. -- Noam Chomsky
Asking who ought to be the boss is like asking who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor -- Henry Ford
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day. -- Johnny Cash
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. -- Thomas Jefferson
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. -- Thomas Gray
A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence. -- Thomas E. Mann
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet. -- Clare Bowen
America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs. -- John Adams
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders? -- Mark Leibovich
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 think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor -- Coleman Hawkins

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