Wade Barrett Quotes

I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I have always safely relied on my voice modulations. It has never let me down.

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

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

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.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.

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.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

My voice is not very dynamic.

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

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

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

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.'

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

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

I never took any vocal training.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.