Norah Jones Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?”
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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.”
-- Norah JonesSource : "How To Break Up With Attitude, According To Norah Jones". "Morning Edition" with Davide Greene and Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.
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“I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.”
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“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.”
-- Norah JonesSource : "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July 2003.
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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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“I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.”
-- Norah JonesSource : "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.
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“I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.”
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“Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.”
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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 try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.”
-- Norah JonesSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.”
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“I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.”
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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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“I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.”
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“I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.”
-- Norah JonesSource : "Keeping up with Norah Jones" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2002.
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“I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.”
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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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“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!”
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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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“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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“A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.”
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“I'm always going to do that - record and make music.”
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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 not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.”
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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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