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Top 10 Norah Jones Quotes

  1. I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.
  2. I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.
  3. Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
  4. The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
  5. It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
  6. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
  7. It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.
  8. Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
  9. I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
  10. 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.

Norah Jones Short Quotes

  • I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
  • Coffee gives me bad breath.
  • A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
  • I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
  • I'm happy. I feel good about music.
  • Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.
  • I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
  • I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.
  • People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
  • I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

Norah Jones Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since. — Norah Jones

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial. — Norah Jones

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually. — Norah Jones

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety. — Norah Jones

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days. — Norah Jones

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job. — Norah Jones

It's hard for me to pry with people I know. — Norah Jones

I'm not a great piano player. — Norah Jones

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own. — Norah Jones

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! — Norah Jones

I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble. — Norah Jones

I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say. — Norah Jones

I like to be in control of things. — Norah Jones

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way. — Norah Jones

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think. — Norah Jones

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician. — Norah Jones

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over. — Norah Jones

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned. — Norah Jones

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things. — Norah Jones

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. — Norah Jones

You would never catch me in a miniskirt. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

I like barbecuing because it's easy. — Norah Jones

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. — Norah Jones

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. — Norah Jones

I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy. — Norah Jones

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all. — Norah Jones

I'm super-fortunate to have any fans still. — Norah Jones

I make a good fried chicken. — Norah Jones

I'm not a very dark person. — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes. — Norah Jones

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there. — Norah Jones

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else. — Norah Jones

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me — Norah Jones

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. — Norah Jones

I don't want to be singing my diary. — Norah Jones

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun. — Norah Jones

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it. — Norah Jones

I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky. — Norah Jones

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. — Norah Jones

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby. — Norah Jones

It's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me. — Norah Jones

Life Lessons by Norah Jones

  1. Norah Jones is an example of how dedication and hard work can lead to success, as she has achieved both critical and commercial success in her career.
  2. Her music is a reminder that it is possible to create something beautiful and meaningful even with seemingly simple elements.
  3. Her career has also shown that it is possible to be both successful and true to yourself, as she has maintained her own unique style and sound throughout her career.
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