Norah Jones Quotes

Norah Jones offers gentle, reflective thoughts on love, nature and patience.

39 quotes

1. The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

2. He wasn't done yet.

3. I felt like I went to somebody else's birthday party and I ate all their cake. Without anybody else getting a piece. That's how I felt.

4. You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

5. Something has to make you run I don't know why I didn't come

6. Lonestar Where are you out tonight? This feeling I'm trying to fight It's dark and I think that I would give anything For you to shine down on me

7. How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign

8. If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

9. It never rains when you want it to You humble me, Lord

10. I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home

11. I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows

12. I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me

13. I love the things that you've given me I cherish you my dear country But sometimes I don't understand the way we play

14. I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

15. I don't want to be singing my diary.

16. The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

17. That's been the coolest thing about all this, I get to meet people that I worship!

18. 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.

19. I'm happy. I feel good about music.

20. I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

21. I make a good fried chicken.

22. It's not like once you achieve success, you're done, you know. It's like, still enjoy doing what you're doing, that's the key for me.

23. Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

24. Come away with me and we'll kiss. On a mountaintop. Come away with me and I'll never stop loving you.

25. I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

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

27. I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

28. Come away with me on a bus. Come away where they can't tempt us. With their lies...

29. I, don't know how, to slow it down. My mind's racing from chasing pirates.

30. I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

31. I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

32. 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.

33. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

34. 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.

35. I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

36. It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

37. I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

38. For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

39. If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.