Norah Jones Quotes

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

When I had arrived in Italy, I had my CD Walkman and about 100 CDs. The song that spoke to me was Kate Bush's 'The Man With the Child in His Eyes,' from 1978.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I must have been about 13 when I first heard Linkin Park and, to be honest, music had never played that much of a part in my life to that point.

I think I've been able to connect with people and their emotions through my songs. I feel honoured that despite having so many talented singers around, my work is always appreciated.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

How many millions of times have I sung 'Love Changes Everything?' But when I see how it matters to people, it gives me the impetus to rediscover it and remember how lucky I am to have a song like that.

My sole intent is to spread love through music - to let people know the power of music.

Don't just listen to my songs; listen to any song which you feel would make a change in your life.

I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.

Overall, I just wanted to release music that would take people through life's different emotions.