quotes about Tenors
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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.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
-- Beilby PorteusSource : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.55
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I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
-- Bill Monroe -
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A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
-- Denis NordenSource : "My Music". Book by Steve Race, 1979.
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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing
-- Gerry Mulligan -
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
-- Gerry Mulligan -
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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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.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
-- Placido Domingo -
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
-- Robert Plant