Norah Jones: Owning accomplishments, repairing relationships, and surfing
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
When was the last time you enjoyed some silence? Musician Norah Jones appreciates the importance of silence – it allows us to tune into what our minds are trying to tell us.
In this chat with Fearne, Norah explains that the rare moments of quiet are when creativity flows most freely. They talk about the feeling of being embarrassed by your work when you’re young, but that it’s important to be ever evolving and honing your craft just by getting on and doing it.
Norah’s new album, Visions, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that |
| 0:05.9 | celebrates curiosity and creativity. Today I'm chatting to Nora Jones. Some songwriters work like that where they try to write every day |
| 0:15.6 | and I've tried that for a while a long time ago |
| 0:18.5 | and it just didn't work for me. |
| 0:19.8 | I like it when it just pops into your head. |
| 0:21.8 | Obviously, I'm a product of all the information |
| 0:24.9 | you've input it into your brain. |
| 0:26.7 | And so all the music I've listened to in my whole life |
| 0:30.0 | has influenced me. |
| 0:31.5 | And most ideas come from something something and it's like language |
| 0:34.1 | when you listen to everybody talk eventually you start talking and you put together |
| 0:37.9 | your own sentences so it's the same kind of thing. |
| 0:40.3 | Nora first emerged on the world stage in 2002 with one of the most beautiful |
| 0:47.1 | songs ever come away with me. Since then she's become a nine-time Grammy winner, sold more than 52 million albums. |
| 0:57.0 | That is ridiculous! |
| 0:59.0 | 52 million! |
| 1:01.0 | She hosts a brilliant podcast that I love called Nora Jones is playing along and now |
| 1:05.1 | she's released a new album, Visions. Ah, it's delightful. But throughout her career, |
| 1:10.9 | she's also continued to hone her craft learning new instruments by just playing at random bars in New York wearing an assortment of hats as disguises. |
| 1:20.0 | You might have seen on social media just a few weeks ago. |
| 1:23.0 | She was playing the piano at St Pancria Station in London. |
| 1:27.0 | Maybe you were lucky enough to have been there. |
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