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

Norah Jones

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Norah Jones
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: March 30
Actor
Film Actor
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
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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.
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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.
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For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
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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.
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I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
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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.
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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?
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I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
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I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
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For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
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You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
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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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Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
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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.
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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.
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A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
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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.
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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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I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
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I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.
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