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  • 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.

    Men   Opposites   Tenors  
  • My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  • Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

  • The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

    Men   Gossip   Enemy  
    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.51, Modern Library
  • I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

    Voice   Tenors   Wanted  
    "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.
  • Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

    Life   Way   Tenors  
    Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.55
  • I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

    Growing Up   Bass   Way  
    "THE LEADING MEN: Josh Young and Paul Nolan, Jesus Christ Superstar's Judas and Jesus". Interview with Michael Gioia, www.playbill.com. March 22, 2012.
  • The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

    Song   Voice   Elements  
  • I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

    Sweet   Player   Men  
  • 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!

    Trying   One Day   Said  
  • It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

    Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead
  • The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

    The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.
  • This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

    Eight   Four   Young  
  • I bought a tenor but I haven't dedicated the time to it, plus I haven't found a mouthpiece that I like as of yet. I've been doing a lot of mouthpiece searching for the alto in the last few years and now that that's cooled out maybe I can begin the search for a tenor mouthpiece. After doing it for the alto, I just haven't felt like looking for any more mouthpieces. You play both, right?

    Years   Play   Lasts  
  • Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

    Black   World   Opera  
  • I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

    Song   Tenors   Knows  
    Source: wrvo.org
  • The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

    Revenge   Pride   Wrath  
  • I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

    Tenors  
  • 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.

    Hands   Opera   Tenors  
  • In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them all. At first John didn't know what the song was...although if he'd been asked what his name was, he would have said Santa Claus, or Luther Vandross, or Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe even Joan Collins.

    Song   Warrior   Zsadist  
    J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2960, Penguin
  • I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

    Music   Play   Made  
  • Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

    Roles   Band   Way  
    Ned Sublette (2004). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.537, Chicago Review Press
  • Tenors get women by the score.

    Score   Tenors  
    James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.240, GENERAL PRESS
  • An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

    Art   Age   Standing Out  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

    Mean   Men   Law  
    "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.
  • Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

    Life   Learning   Wish  
    Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494
  • One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

    Power   Self   People  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.
  • The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

  • You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

    Cat   Play   Trying  
  • In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

    Class   Facts   Social  
    "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.
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