Norah Jones Quotes

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When something's ending, you go through so many phases,

When something‘s ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you’re out on the other side, it’s like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
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Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
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It’s fun to peek into other people‘s worlds and see how they go about doing things.
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A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
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I feel like I’ve been lucky, because I don’t feel like I’ve ever tried to be somebody I’m not. People might disagree.
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I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that’s something I’m not in a rush to do.
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I think it’s important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
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I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.
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I’m always going to do that – record and make music.
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A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
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I really love things with melody.
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I don’t want to be singing my diary.
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In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That’s where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
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There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
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I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
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God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
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Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn’t even have a football team.
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I’m not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I’m going to mess up a lot.
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I’ve been told the weirdest things: ‘Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!’ or ‘I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.’
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I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
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The coolest thing I’ve gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
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I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
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I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
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For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
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I’m not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.
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I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn’t started until I’ve had eggs. I’m probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
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I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
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I’m ballsy. Well, sometimes I’m ballsy.
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I don’t think I’m a great songwriter, but I think I’ve learned a lot about it, and I don’t think there’s any one way to do it. I don’t think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
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Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.
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I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it’s part of your body – it’s a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it’s part of your body.
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My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn’t because I wanted to make simple music. It’s because I don’t really have the chops.
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I wasn’t very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
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I don’t want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that’s it.
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I like my life. I like my friends. I don’t want to go anywhere else.
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I wasn’t a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
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I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn’t even expect to get a record deal.
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I make a good fried chicken.
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I don’t try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
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A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
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I’d done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I’d have a record label.
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Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
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You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.
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I always try to do something different. I don’t think I’ve made the same record over and over.
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I didn’t think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody – I didn’t think it described me very well and I didn’t think it had anything to do with my music.
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I like to be in control of things.
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There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
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On the first album I was saying, that’s just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I’m afraid of something? No. I’m just going to be myself.
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I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.
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There’s a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there’s also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
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Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don’t have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
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I don’t actually have a lot of discipline. I’ve worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
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My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
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I became a musician so I wouldn’t have to get up at 6 in the morning.
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I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don’t want to do the same thing all the time.
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Maybe I’m genetically more inclined to music – but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
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I like barbecuing because it’s easy.
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I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
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