#tenor

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#any #extent #french #great #great extent

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#buff #hear #i #i am #myself

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

— Robert Plant

#really #sax #tenor #voice #wanted

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

#flute #got #guys #like #play

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

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on! ↗

— Jerome Richardson

#been #day #get #here #i

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

#before #had #i #instrument #jazz

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#closer #comments #default #dominated #get

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

— Bill Monroe

#high #i #mandolin #tenor #voice

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

— Bobby Short

#even #opera #position #problematic #tenor