Quotes About Tenor

I'm a natural baritone, so I had challenges in that middle range, which would be that tenor area, singing in my natural voice. And I worked on that. But basically the falsetto thing, I didn't even know it was a falsetto until a music teacher commented on it, that I had a very nice falsetto. I didn't even know what it was. I said, 'Oh, OK.'

I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society; it gives a peculiar direction to public opinion and a peculiar tenor to the laws; it imparts new maxims to the governing authorities and peculiar habits to the governed.

Lorsqu'il ouvrait la bouche, sa voix de ténor rauque et bourrue accentuait encore son expression belliqueuse.

'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.

A vida é uma ópera e uma grande ópera. O tenor e o barítono lutam pelo soprano, em presença do baixo e dos comprimários, quando não são o soprano e o contralto que lutam pelo tenor, em presença do mesmo baixo e dos mesmos comprimários. Há coros numerosos, muitos bailados, e a orquestração é excelente...

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

It surprised him that his own voice came out a clear, resonant tenor, and not a thready pain-choked whine.

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

Brag, sweet tenor bull,descant on Rawthey's madrigal,each pebble its partfor the fells' late spring.

I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.

But more important, the scapegoating tone and tenor revealed that the Clintons were either living on another planet or at least having emotional and intellectual difficulty coming to terms with the reality that only Hillary was culpable and only Hillary could turn things around.

We must demand a more civil tone and tenor in our politics.

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

Patricide. The stuff of the great operas. U2's music was never really rock 'n' roll. Under its contemporary skin it's opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won't accept he's a baritone. A small man singing giant songs.

U2's music was never really rock 'n' roll. Under its contemporary skin it's opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won't accept he's a baritone. A small man singing giant songs. Wailing, keening, trying to explain the unexplainable. Trying to release himself and anyone who will listen from the prison of a human experience that cannot explain grief.

I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.

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

Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

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.

Aunque cantaba en voz baja, la pureza y la belleza de la voz de Zsadist eran impresionantes. Siempre había tenido voz de tenor. En las raras ocasiones en que cantaba, los sonidos que salían de su boca eran asombrosos, capaces de hacer que el tiempo se detuviera y se deslizara hacia la eternidad.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

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

Lendler has come down through the decades to enjoy a place of its own in the distinctive argot of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. When you rented rooms from a lendler, you became his tenor. Singing had nothing to do with it.