Norah Jones Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  Norah Jones

  Discipline, Knack, Kind

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• I'm not a great piano player.

  Norah Jones

  Player, Piano

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• 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.

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  College, Labels, Done

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• I don't want to be singing my diary.

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  Singing, Diaries, Want

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• 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.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 07, 2010.

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

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  Lines, Fine Lines, Fine

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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.

  Norah Jones

  Trying, Dresses, Labels

  "Norah Jones sweeps Grammy Awards", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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

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  People, Pops

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

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  Song, Feelings, Different

  "How To Break Up With Attitude, According To Norah Jones". www.npr.org. April 30, 2012.

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

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  New York, Expectations, Records

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

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  Different, Records, Flow

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• I really love things with melody.

  Norah Jones

  Melody

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• 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.

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  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

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  Talking, Play, Listening

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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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  Weekend, College, Best Practices

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

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  Football, Team, School

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Makeup, Hair, Unhappy

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• If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

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  Way, Paint, Reverie

  Song: Painter Song, Album: Come Away With Me

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

  Norah Jones

  Country, New York, Texas

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• I'm not a very dark person.

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  Dark, Persons

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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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  Thinking, Albums, Firsts

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

  Norah Jones

  Records

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

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  Clothes, Designer, Feels

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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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  Albums, Pressure, Firsts

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

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  Fun, Musician, Supposed To Be

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