Allison Tolman Quotes

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened to had these big voices, and I wanted to try it. The blessing is that I could.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

I was blown away by Steve Perry's voice - you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

The best vocalists I can think of are female.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

I don't hate my voice. I'm just not an Adele.

When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.

If I could sing like a Chaka Khan, an Aretha, a Kim Burrell, if I could do all these amazing runs and belt it out, I would. I've attempted that, and it's not something anyone would want to hear.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.