Norah Jones Quotes

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Norah Jones

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 30, 1979

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

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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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When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

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

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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.

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I make a good fried chicken.

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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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All is fair in love and songwriting.

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I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.

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Coffee gives me bad breath.

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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 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 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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I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.

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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 love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

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

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