“Except for recordings made by famous tenors, the emphasis in classical recording has for the most part recently been on the work, and even more on the composer-the performer being spotlighted as the composer's most accomplished representative.”
Charles Rosen
“There are some very high tenor parts in really exposed places. It calls for heroic tenors.”
Rodney Wynkoop
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.”
Leonard Warren
“I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.”
Coleman Hawkins
“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.”
“We went out to dinner and to see the 10 Tenors a couple of months ago with friends. It takes us buying a ticket, putting our money where our mouths are.”
Carol Green
