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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
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. -- Andy Serkis
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself. -- Luciano Pavarotti
A tenor is not a man but a disease. -- Hans von Bulow
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
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs. -- Gerry Mulligan
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 of the age and not go flopping along. -- Evelyn Waugh
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since. -- Johnny Griffin
I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had. -- Herbie Hancock
I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit. -- Josh Young
Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones. -- Art Pepper
Tenors get women by the score. -- James Joyce
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 remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street. -- Anton du Beke
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. -- Placido Domingo
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out. -- Bryan White
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) -- Edward Abbey
Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound. -- Yoshi Wada
In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do. -- Lucas Grabeel

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