Top 90 Norah Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that’s the only way for you to be with me.”

— Norah Jones

2. “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.”

— Norah Jones

3. “For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.”

— Norah Jones

4. “Don’t go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

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

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7. “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 Jones

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

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

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10. “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.”

— Norah Jones

11. “All is fair in love and songwriting.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “It’s important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.”

— Norah Jones

14. “If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won’t matter.”

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15. “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.”

— Norah Jones

16. “You would never catch me in a miniskirt.”

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17. “Your limitations create your sound.”

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18. “I’ve learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don’t mind autographs – that’s part of it. I just do not see the point of being “out there” or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.”

— Norah Jones

19. “I’m in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.”

— Norah Jones

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

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

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

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

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24. “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.”

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

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26. “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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27. “A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.”

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

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29. “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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30. “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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31. “There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.”

— Norah Jones

32. “I make a good fried chicken.”

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33. “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.”

— Norah Jones

34. “I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.”

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35. “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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36. “I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.”

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37. “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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38. “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.”

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

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40. “I’m not a very dark person.”

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

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42. “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!”

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

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44. “I like barbecuing because it’s easy.”

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45. “I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.”

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

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

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48. “Coffee gives me bad breath.”

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

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50. “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.”

— Norah Jones