Top 100 Norah's Quotes
#1. I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#2. If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#3. I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.
Candice Accola
#4. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#5. When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
Norah Jones
#7. I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
Norah Jones
#8. I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.
Norah Jones
#9. If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
Norah Jones
#10. It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.
Norah Vincent
#11. It's hard for me to pry with people I know.
Norah Jones
#12. 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.
Norah Jones
#13. One of the most common mistakes for an entry-level job interview is to take the position: 'What is this job going to do for me?' You should be saying 'Here's what I can do and here's what I want to do to help you.'
Norah O'Donnell
#14. It's just sexual tension. Hardcore, animalistic, lick his body all over, sexual tension. - Norah
Angela Richardson
#15. Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.
David Crosby
#16. Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.
Gerry Beckley
#17. 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.
Norah Jones
#18. 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
#19. It was all she could do to get the words out before he crushed her in a bear hug. Twenty-four hours ago, she might have thought the gesture was intended as much for Ray's benefit as for hers, but she knew better now. This was real. It had to be.
Norah Wilson
#20. On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.
Norah Jones
#21. You don't understand guys Norah, we don't always think, we just do. It's hard for us to focus clearly sometimes and we end up just acting on impulse, which isn't always a smart thing.
Angela Richardson
#22. 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.
Norah Jones
#23. Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
Kim Edwards
#24. You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.
Norah O'Donnell
#25. I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
Norah Jones
#26. Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the corner ...
Norah Lofts
#27. The whole of him so much greater than the sum of his existence.
"The Sum of Man
Norah Pollard
#28. I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
Norah Jones
#29. There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
Norah Vincent
#30. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again.
Rachel Cohn
#31. Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
Rachel Cohn
#32. But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.
Taylor Dayne
#33. 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 repeat.
Norah Jones
#34. There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
Norah Vincent
#35. 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?
Norah Jones
#36. 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.
Norah Jones
#37. I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
Norah Jones
#38. 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.
Norah Jones
#39. Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.
Norah Vincent
#40. I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.
Norah Jones
#41. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.
Ellen Meister
#42. 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.
Norah Jones
#43. 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.
Norah Jones
#44. It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.
Norah Jones
#45. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge
Norah Lofts
#46. 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.
Norah Jones
#47. If I'm just The Guy With Norah, that's cool. Right now, that's all I want to be. All the other things I am - they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.
Rachel Cohn
#49. I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.
Norah Jones
#50. She blinked at Ray's question, then pulled herself together. "Geoffrey Mann. He's an abstractor. He does title searches at the Record Office. Vince and I both use him. But you'd never meet a more mild-mannered, shy man.
Norah Wilson
#51. It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.
Rachel Cohn
#52. 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.
Norah Jones
#54. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love." Norah
Rachel Cohn
#55. You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me.
Norah Olson
#56. I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.
Norah Jones
#57. I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.
Norah Jones
#60. When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
Norah Jones
#61. He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.
Norah Vincent
#62. There is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
Norah Vincent
#63. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my departure will become somebody else's good luck
Rachel Cohn
#64. I really like being a woman ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Norah Vincent
#65. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.
Norah Lofts
#66. People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
Norah Vincent
#67. You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
Norah Jones
#69. I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
Norah Jones
#70. It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
Norah Jones
#71. I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy
#73. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.
Norah Lofts
#74. Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.
Norah Lofts
#75. 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.
Norah Jones
#76. People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
Emmy Rossum
#77. I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
Deborah Cox
#78. I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.
Norah O'Donnell
#79. I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.
Justina Chen
#80. My grand baby is growing so fast, I can't believe she's already celebrating her first birthday in this month of October 2016. Happy Birthday Norah Grace, grandma loves you.
Euginia Herlihy
#81. Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
Norah Jones
#82. I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
Norah Jones
#83. I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.
Norah Jones
#84. I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.
Norah Jones
#85. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.
Rachel Cohn
#86. My heart is drenched in wine.
You'll be on my mind.
Forever
Norah Jones
#87. I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
Ashley Benson
#89. 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.
Norah Jones
#90. They would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.
Norah Vincent
#91. I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Norah Jones
#92. I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.
Lesley Gore
#93. For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.
Norah Jones
#94. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
Rachel Cohn
#96. A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
Norah Jones
#97. Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.
Norah Jones
#98. Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
Norah Jones
#99. 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.
Norah Jones
#100. Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.
James A. Owen
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