Best 83 quotes of Norah Jones on MyQuotes

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

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.

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?

Coffee gives me bad breath.

Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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

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

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.

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 don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.

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

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.

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

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 want to be singing my diary.

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

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

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.

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

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

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

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

I make a good fried chicken.

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

I'm happy. I feel good about music.

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

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.

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

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 remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky.

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 think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

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