#about

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz. ↗

— Norah Jones

#arts #arts school #attended #aware #because

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

— Norah Jones

#doing #fun #go #how #into

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

#even #feel #how #nobody #really

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

#completely #different #i #listener #me

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

#back #cause #country #country music #fell

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

#father #him #know #known #last

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#attention #between #classes #ear #easy

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know? ↗

— Quincy Jones

#bad #band #better #bit #blow

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#movies #music #release #tension

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #diminishes #get #growing #i