Norah Jones Quotes

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

I have never followed anyone's style of singing.

I don't really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don't believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it's good or not.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

Making art is different for everyone.

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

I make the kind of music I like.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.