(22 quotes found)
“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.”
“He is very respectful of the obligations we have as a Legislature, ... The basic tenor of his statement was: 'It's not going to be like walking through a rose garden necessarily.' ”
Tom Feeney
“The initial impression ... was of a chairman who did not want to shock the markets. The general tenor of the prepared remarks was that he would not take any chances with inflation, while retaining the risk management approach of his predecessor.”
Rob Carnell
“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
“The tone, tenor and substance of what you had to say is very different from what we heard before.”
William Cohen
“We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.”
Cindy Cohn
“What we are reacting to is the somewhat stronger than expected tenor in the November employment data - that's it in a nutshell.”
William Sullivan
