Quotes of Tenor - somelinesforyou

“ The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. ”

- Henry Ford

“ 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

“ An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. ”

- Billie Burke

“ 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

“ I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, Where have you been? and I said right here for now on! ”

- Jerome Richardson

“ You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so! ”

- Jerome Richardson

“ When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. ”

- Andrew Granatelli
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