“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”
Alec Guinness
“I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.”
Bill Monroe
“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
“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 made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.”
“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
