Tenors Quotes

Tenors Quote of the day

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

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.

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

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.

Tenors get women by the score.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

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.

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

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

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

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.

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

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

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

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

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

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

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