178 Quotes by Norah Jones

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.’

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

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.