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• 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.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Children, Voice, People

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• A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Life, Believe, Peaceful

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• America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

  John Adams

  Religious, America, Political

  Adams, John Quincy (1914). “Writings of John Quincy Adams Volume 4”, p.209, Best Books on

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• Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determined, Moments, Reviews

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.190

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• 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.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Cat, Play, Trying

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• 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.

  Samuel Adams

  Mean, Men, Law

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• We had Bob's [Gordon] records, and he's on Clifford Brown's first record as a leader. I believe it was Clifford Brown's first record as a leader and had the original versions of Daahoud and Joy Spring that were arranged by Bob's best friend, the West Coast tenor player named Jack Montrose, who I later met.

  Jon Gordon

  Spring, Believe, Player

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• There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

  Jane Jacobs

  Two, Canada, Program

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• 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

  Song, Knows

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

  Johnny Cash

  Voice, Today, Cold

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

  Sean Price

  School, Men, Play

  Source: hiphopdx.com

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• What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Country

  "A 'Moral Obligation' To Protest Trump, Says Michael Eric Dyson". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 19, 2016.

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• I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

  Colin Meloy

  Wish, Dip, Range

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Two, Together, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

  Charles Koch

  People, Insulting, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was a returning student. He actually got me on Red Rodney's band subbing a little bit. I gigged some with Red when I was 21 in 1988. So I had a lot of nice associations that came from [ Laguardia School of Arts]. But a lot of my education was going on in the clubs. Hearing music and sitting in.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Nice, School

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• 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?

  Charles McPherson

  Years, Play, Lasts

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• My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.

  Johnny Griffin

  Kings, Party, Kids

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• Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.

  Art Pepper

  Player, Long, People

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• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Play, Trying, Records

  "Portrait of the artist: Andrea Bocelli, tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jon Gordon

  Sweet, Player, Men

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• By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy,
  you are learning to take control of your destiny.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Destiny, Energy, Flow

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.205, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• 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

  Humorous, People, Tragedy

  Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reckless, Notes, Wander

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.60, Hachette UK

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