American Quote by Corinne Bailey Rae Download Open image “Americans like things that don't sound American.” — Corinne Bailey Rae ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Like Sound Things
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
What happens when I go to America is I sound really English. Most people would start sounding American, but I do the opposite. — Cynthia Erivo Copy Share Image
By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany. — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Because of my background, I never felt comfortable with these R&B divas, but I'd hate to be just some pensive girl with a guitar. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose. I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you. I just wanna stay right here, Until never… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
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… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I find so much freedom in singing and so much expression of my self. I feel so connected to the people in the audience,… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
We went to Baptist church as a family, and that took up so many nights a week. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
All the changes you go through personally really affect the music you make, and my music on the one hand is personal and the… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image