Quotes About Tenors

#1. In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Lucas Grabeel

#2. Tenors get women by the score.

James Joyce

#3. I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.

Linda Ronstadt

#4. For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

Bernard Holland

#5. God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Marcello Giordani

#6. Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

Yoshi Wada

#7. You should read Spanish,' he said. 'It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian
Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders
but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in a flood.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Edward Abbey

#9. This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

Placido Domingo

#10. There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Bryan White

#11. Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery.

Rick Riordan

#12. I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.

Anton Du Beke

#13. The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Adam Weishaupt

#14. A tenor is not a man but a disease.

Hans Von Bulow

#15. Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

Simon Sinek

#16. I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.

Ashley Greene

#17. Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.

Pearl Zhu

#18. The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

Giuseppe Verdi

#19. Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

William Shakespeare

#20. I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

Sam Raimi

#21. There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

Stanley Nelson Jr.

#22. In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

Rachel Weisz

#23. Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

#24. I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

Samuel Rutherford

#25. A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Denis Norden

#26. Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

Cassandra Clare

#27. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

John Quincy Adams

#28. Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor ... Second question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then he turned to his friends and said, 'You guys want anything?' That's a joke. I can't believe it. I caved in. I feel awful.

Jimmy Fallon