Quotes of: Tenor Keyword

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

David Sanborn

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

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...

Linda Ronstadt

Ed: You're a musician? Fred Madison: Yeah. Al: What's your axe? Fred Madison: Tenor. Tenor saxophone. Do you... Al: [shakes his head and point at his ear] Tone deaf.

Lost Highway

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 note...

Josh Young

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

Bill Monroe

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

Robert Plant

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Bobby Short

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

Bryan White

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Andy Serkis

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

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

Jose Carreras

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

Alec Guinness

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

Andre Maurois

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

Gerry Mulligan

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

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

David Johansen

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

Placido Domingo

Lieutenant John Chard: Good. I can find work for baritones as well as tenors.

Zulu