Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
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Norah Jones
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About Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, has sold more than 53 million records worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won ten Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's Artists of the 2000s Decade chart.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Norah JonesI love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
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.
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
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.
I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
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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I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
I love slow music.
I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
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.'
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
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 …
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.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
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 …
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…
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.
I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.