#ted

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. ↗

— Marion Jones

#champion #child #i #involved #knew

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

#breaking up #complicated #did #distance #dramatic

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #best #best friend #close #early

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! ↗

— Norah Jones

#day #die #eggs #feel #gonna

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

#chops #constructed #first #i #make

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #coming #i #jazz #know

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#big #big bands #biggest #charlie #dealing

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#could #day #different #different world #family

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