Tag - Tenor Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Tenor Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Tenor Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Steve Lacy

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It’s got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

– Steve Lacy

Stan Getz

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

– Stan Getz

Samuel Adams

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty – to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

– Samuel Adams

Sam Elliott

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It’s always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.

– Sam Elliott

Placido Domingo

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

– Placido Domingo

Philip Bailey

I’m a natural baritone, so I had challenges in that middle range, which would be that tenor area, singing in my natural voice. And I worked on that. But basically the falsetto thing, I didn’t even know it was a falsetto until a music teacher commented on it, that I had a very nice falsetto. I didn’t even know what it was. I said, ‘Oh, OK.’

– Philip Bailey

Nan Hayworth

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

Mstislav Rostropovich

The cello is a hero because of its register – its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

– Mstislav Rostropovich

Mirella Freni

As a small girl I enjoyed singing with my mother’s brother. He taught me all kinds of melodies and I sang the ones I liked most. It did not matter if they were for tenor, baritone, bass, or any other voice.

– Mirella Freni

Meshell Ndegeocello

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown’s ‘Brownie Eyes.’ I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from… I love improvisational music.

– Meshell Ndegeocello

Marcello Giordani

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

– Marcello Giordani

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

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