Tenor Quotes
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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
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
— Chris Hillman
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
— Robert Plant
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
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
— Gerry Mulligan
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
There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.
— Bryant McGill
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
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
— Andre Maurois
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
— George Bernard Shaw
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
— Andy Serkis
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
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
— Bill Monroe
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
— Placido Domingo
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
A tenor is not a man but a disease.
— Hans Von Bulow
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
— Gerry Mulligan
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
— William Shakespeare
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The tenor voice should be like sunshine.
— Marcello Giordani
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
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
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
— Luciano Pavarotti
I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.
— David Sanborn
I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.
— Sean Price
By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny. — Lynn Grabhorn
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
— George Eliot
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
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
— Alec Guinness
Through the sequester'd vale of rural lifeThe venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus
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
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
— Denis Norden
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
The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
— Gerry Mulligan
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
— Coleman Hawkins
