Top 139 Tenor Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

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

We must demand a more civil tone and tenor in our politics.

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.

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

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

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

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.

I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

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

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

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.

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.

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

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.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

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

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

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

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.

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

People have been upset about the tenor and discord in Washington for a really long time.

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.

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.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

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.

These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

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.

When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the tenor of the performances.

First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

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.

I bought a tenor but I haven't dedicated the time to it, plus I haven't found a mouthpiece that I like as of yet. I've been doing a lot of mouthpiece searching for the alto in the last few years and now that that's cooled out maybe I can begin the search for a tenor mouthpiece. After doing it for the alto, I just haven't felt like looking for any more mouthpieces. You play both, right?

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.

Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

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

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