Norah Jones Quotes

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I know I'm not musically talented.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I was always good at music.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I play no instruments.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.