Norah Jones Quotes
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I don't want to be singing my diary.
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You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
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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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I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
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A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
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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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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'm not a very dark person.
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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.
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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'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
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For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
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Your limitations create your sound.
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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 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.
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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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Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
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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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I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
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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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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.
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People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
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It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
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A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
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I'm happy. I feel good about music.
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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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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.
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I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
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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.
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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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