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

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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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Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.
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Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
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Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
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I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky.
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I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
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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.'
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The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
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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.
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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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If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
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What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.
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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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For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
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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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All is fair in love and songwriting.
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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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It's hard for me to pry with people I know.
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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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I like to be in control of things.
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I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
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