2.
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
3.
I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
Bill Monroe
6.
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
7.
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
Robert Plant
9.
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
10.
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
11.
I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.
Johnny Cash
12.
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
Patrick Rothfuss
13.
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
William Shakespeare
14.
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.
Beilby Porteus
15.
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
Denis Norden