“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
“I think given the tenor of the times and the feelings of some people that it was necessary to put them in.”
Commissioner Charley Martin
“There are some very high tenor parts in really exposed places. It calls for heroic tenors.”
Rodney Wynkoop
“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
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.”
“The whole tenor these days is considerably different than it was a few years ago. In Colorado we're resigned to the fact that the disease is much more widespread; we are going to have to live with it.”
Mike Miller
