#tenor

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

#body #challenge #especially #far #goes

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

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

#family #friends #god #had #i

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

— Placido Domingo

#eight #four #i #i am #over

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#discovery #general #hesitation #i #i can

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#age #along #artist #go #must

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

#belfast #big #did #george #guy

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#course #i #jobs #played #tenor

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#baritone #cannot #functions #orchestral #serve

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