#lot

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

#always #ballads #been #drawn #ever

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 was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#because #came #club #dance #days

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. ↗

— Star Jones

#family #fight #know #lot #may

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#integrity #interesting #just #lots

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#cattle #cowboys #done #friends #i

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dumb #ever #guy #guys #hardly

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#answers #being #creates #intellectual #lot

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#athletes #come #day #downtime #here