Top 90 Norah Jones Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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?”

— Norah Jones

53. “I’m not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.”

— Norah Jones

54. “I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

56. “Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

58. “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.”

— Norah Jones

59. “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

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

— Norah Jones

61. “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.”

— Norah Jones

62. “I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that’s all that matters.”

— Norah Jones

63. “People think I’m really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I’m not at all. I’m very direct.”

— Norah Jones

64. “Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn’t even have a football team.”

— Norah Jones

65. “I don’t want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that’s it.”

— Norah Jones

66. “Designers send me clothes I wouldn’t feel comfortable wearing.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

68. “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.’”

— Norah Jones

69. “I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that’s something I’m not in a rush to do.”

— Norah Jones

70. “Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

72. “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.”

— Norah Jones

73. “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.”

— Norah Jones

74. “Making records is fun. It’s not some big statement. You’re allowed to make mistakes.”

— Norah Jones

75. “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

76. “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.”

— Norah Jones

77. “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

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

— Norah Jones

79. “I always try to do something different. I don’t think I’ve made the same record over and over.”

— Norah Jones

80. “For me, there’s a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.”

— Norah Jones

81. “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.”

— Norah Jones

82. “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.”

— Norah Jones

83. “I like to be in control of things.”

— Norah Jones

84. “I wasn’t a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.”

— Norah Jones

85. “I’m always going to do that – record and make music.”

— Norah Jones

86. “It’s hard for me to pry with people I know.”

— Norah Jones

87. “I really love things with melody.”

— Norah Jones

88. “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.”

— Norah Jones

89. “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.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

92. “I like my life. I like my friends. I don’t want to go anywhere else.”

— Norah Jones

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

— Norah Jones

94. “I’m ballsy. Well, sometimes I’m ballsy.”

— Norah Jones

95. “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.”

— Norah Jones

96. “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.”

— Norah Jones

97. “I’m not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.”

— Norah Jones