Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Norah Jones

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

Your limitations create your sound.

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

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

Coffee gives me bad breath.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

I'm not a very dark person.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 love slow music.

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

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

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

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

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

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

I like to be in control of things.

I like barbecuing because it's easy.

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

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.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

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.

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

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

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

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

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.

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.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

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.

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.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

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

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.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 make a good fried chicken.

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

I really love things with melody.