Tenor Quotes

(on producing records with Jim Reeves, aka "Gentleman Jim", who joined RCA in 1955 after recording several years for Abbott Records) When I first met and started working with him, he was singing too high. He was a great baritone, but he wasn`t a very good tenor. I always tried to keep him down in a low key, because when he did that, he sounded wonderful to me. He knew I liked it when he sang in that low key, but occasionally he`d kid me a little and pitch it up a little too high.

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

(On Hollywood) "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."

The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it`s just a critical choice.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Even in today`s opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Hello Father Romano. It`s your favorite tenor.

There were questions developing in the market late last week regarding the tenor of Greenspan`s speech ... (and) it seems as if the potential that there won`t be a rate cut is weighing negatively on the Treasury market.

Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.