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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.

Norah Jones

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Norah Jones
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: March 30
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Jazz Guitarist
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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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I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
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Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
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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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A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
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I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
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I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.
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A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
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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.
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I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.
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I don't go about playing music differently. It changes my sleeping schedule and my drinking habits, that's what I like to say.
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I like to be in control of things.
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Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
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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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Your limitations create your sound.
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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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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.
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It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
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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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