Norah Jones Quotes

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.

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.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

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

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.

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

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

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

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

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.

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

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

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.'

Your limitations create your sound.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

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.

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.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

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

Coffee gives me bad breath.

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.

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.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

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

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

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