Alto Quotes

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

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

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 was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.