Top 60 Norah Jones Quotes

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

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.

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.

I make a good fried chicken.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I like barbecuing because it’s easy.

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.

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

I always try to do something different. I don’t think I’ve made the same record over and over.

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.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

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

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

I really love things with melody.

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

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

I like to be in control of things.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

I’m not a great piano player.

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

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

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

For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

If you’re a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it’s kind of exciting.

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

I don’t want to be singing my diary.

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.

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.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn’t even expect to get a record deal.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.’

I’m very American.

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

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

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

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn’t started until I’ve had eggs. I’m probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

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.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don’t want to do the same thing all the time.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn’t matter to me.

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.

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

I love slow music.