Corinne Bailey Rae Quotes

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Corinne Bailey Rae

Profession : Singer

Birth : February 26, 1979

I never stop working on songs.

Corinne Bailey Rae

American music has become really heavily stylised and focused on production. With producers like the Neptunes and Timbaland, it's so much about the backing track rather than the song.

Corinne Bailey Rae

The Caribbean has had a big impact on me. It's very outdoorsy, people don't really spend a lot of time indoors. There's so much light and sunshine.

Corinne Bailey Rae

Belly made me aware that you could write songs that were mysterious or vulnerable. Their guitar-led music was in some ways very simple, the opposite of the pop music I was brought up with, like Michael Jackson. It made me realise music was something that you could be part of, make in your room.

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I don't just work one way. I enjoy working with others.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I like to be on my own before I do a gig.

Corinne Bailey Rae

When you're in a relationship with someone, it's so much about tearing down the walls between you two that you sort of confuse what is you and what is them. When you lose them, you question: 'What is left of me?'

Corinne Bailey Rae

I loved music from a young age. At school I played the violin but I didn't sing much; there was an expectation of the kids in the choir that they'd have really pure tones, and my voice had all this texture to it. The anodyne soul of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey was in the charts and I couldn't relate to it.

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I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting for you to lay a golden egg. Wherever it is my music comes from, it just doesn't show up when the pressure is on.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I saw tons of young black girls who really got the message of 'Put Your Records On,' which is specifically a message for black girls about self-love and embracing your natural hair.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and Moogs.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I'd always thought pop stars had to be really sophisticated and grown-up. So I was enchanted by Bjork's childlikeness. I'd never heard a voice like hers, with all its character and glottal pronunciations, or music recorded with background noises, like the sound of the city or a bus pulling up.

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My whole vibe is not really fronty and aggressive and blingy.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I started an all-girl band called Helen when I was 15. It wasn't a precocious thing to do - everyone we knew was in a band, and all the bars and pubs in Leeds put on nights.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

Corinne Bailey Rae

I guess that's the main thing when someone dies, the realisation that you won't get to be with them and talk to them.

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