Top Tenor Quotes
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine
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.
Alfredo Kraus
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Bobby Short
Billy Eckstine 
Bill Monroe 
Stan Getz 
Charles Lyell 
Gerry Mulligan 
Steve Lacy 
Alec Guinness 
Luciano Pavarotti 
Robert Louis Stevenson All Tenor Quotes
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine 
62% of people like this quote
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.
Alfredo Kraus
60% of people like this quote
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
59% of people like this quote
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese
58% of people like this quote
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
Bobby Short
56% of people like this quote
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Alec Guinness
56% of people like this quote
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois
52% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
Placido Domingo
51% of people like this quote