Corinne Bailey Rae Quotes

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Corinne Bailey Rae

Profession : Singer

Birth : February 26, 1979

My dad, Chris, is from St Kitts. He worked in computers. I remember the first laptop when he brought it home. People from primary school came to check it out - it was huge.

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I am engaged with the news, I vote, I write to my MP, I stand up for things that are important to me.

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I am drawn to those sad and beautiful moments of life.

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When Prince is into what you're doing, it's just surreal.

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I read someplace that when I was signed to EMI, they reeled in the 'hit-makers.' The presumption is that 'cause you're a young girl, black, smiley, with curly hair, you can't have written the songs. It totally winds me up.

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It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never really into those kinds of comparisons.

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All the changes you go through personally really affect the music you make, and my music on the one hand is personal and the other it comes from my lived experience and the interaction with the world around me.

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I'm not some kind of preacher saying 'You have to have natural hair,' but for me it's easier.

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With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

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My first flight was to Majorca as a 17-year-old and I went to Seattle to visit a friend after that. But the first time I really ventured out abroad to Canada and Japan as well as to Europe, to France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, was to promote my first album.

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I went from playing small gigs for 80 people to like 2,000 or 3,000 people, and they were arriving with all this expectation and excitement.

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I really enjoy touring and playing music to people.

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Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

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I used to plan a lot. But I've realized the vanity in that.

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Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again.

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Everything I do I just want to be real and honest.

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Chaos to me is really important in music.

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I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country, as well as see the amazing landscapes of Iceland.

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There's something really wrong with using Botox: it stops you making facial expressions - people are so interested in how they appear that there's no intention of projecting how they feel.

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I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.

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