Norah Jones Quotes

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Norah Jones

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 30, 1979

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

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

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I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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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Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

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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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I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

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I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

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

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Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

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A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

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

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I like to be in control of things.

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