“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingAmericaSongAsksSoundEnglandAccents Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.” WritingKindSongVoiceCallingSingingTraditionPassingPassingsAccentsWriting SongsIrish Accent Author:Sinead O'Connor
“Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.” PeopleKnowsPlaySongFunWhiteBoysAlbumsNineAccentsTributeReggaeIdiom Author:David Lee Roth
“When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.” I CanWould BeSongFoundVoiceCan DoMy OwnHonestSingersBarsAliensAccentsSpearsBar MitzvahBrutally HonestMitzvah Author:Ellie Goulding
“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?” MenMayChildrenLittlesLongStatesUseShowsSongSpeakTeachGraceHe ManPoetWeightLet MeSoldierTongueProseVersesAccentsForeigners Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
“I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.” ThinkingWayFirstsSongRapAccentsDopeRap Song Author:Rebel Wilson