Song Quotes by Corinne Bailey Rae

I never stop working on songs.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I'm compelled to make music.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I think I just really, really love singing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

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.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I find it easy to relax, but I'm always thinking about songs.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I read someplace that when I was signed to EMI, they reeled in the 'hit-makers.' The presumption is that 'cause you're a…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

All the changes you go through personally really affect the music you make, and my music on the one hand is personal…

— 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…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Punk and jazz are the opposite ends of the same spectrum because they are both looking for freedom and they give musicians…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I don't think, like, 'I've got to sell so many records here, or so many records there.' That's the record label's job.…

— 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…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“You've got this look I can't describe, You make me feel like I'm alive, When everything else is au fait, Without a…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting…

— 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…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I recognize that my voice is kind of quirky, and I don't have a lot of range. But I use it kind…

— Corinne Bailey Rae