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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!

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

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

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

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

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.

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.