#irs

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

#album #am #because #first #going

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring. ↗

— Norah Jones

#amount #constant #enormous #everything #exhaustion

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. ↗

— Norah Jones

#actually #album #albums #because #couple

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#bodies #distant #feel #i #imagine

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. ↗

— Erica Jong

#became #even #first #getting #i

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#call #chills #feel #first #first time

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#first #man #schemes #see #through

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day. ↗

— Treat Williams

#day #every #every day #first #first time

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#like #made #many #pairs #shoes

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ↗