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Norah Jones Biography

Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and actress. She has won numerous awards and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart.

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I make a good fried chicken.

Chicken, Chickens, Fried, Fried Chicken, Good, Make

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz. ' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

Baby, Bank, Calling, Cool, Mom

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

Two, Feet, Honor, Away, Charles, Actually

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

Actually, Guitar, Piano, Write, Writing

I don't want to be singing my diary.

Diaries, Diary, Singing, Want

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?

Distance, Dramatic, Fun, Thinking

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Thinking, People, How You Feel, Think, Relate, Bad

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

Direct, Melancholy, People, Thinking

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

Dresses, Labels, Pop, Trying, Wanting, World

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Albums, Jazz, Make, Real, Rush

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!

Cholesterol, Day, Eggs, Feels, Like

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Dramatization, Make, Personal, Song, Songwriting, Stuff

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

Listener, Mean, Say, Song, Songs, Thinking

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

Hair, Makeup, Photo, Straightened, Unhappy

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

Course, Early, Fun, Luxury, Trying

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Full, Guitar, People, Play

Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.

Grass, Kiss, Lying, Rain, Song

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Awkwardness, Comfortable, Listening, Play, Stage, Talking

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.

Friend, Friendship, Mom, Sacrifice, Sacrifices

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

Fun, Keys, Love, Music, Thinking

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