My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. Yael Naim More Quotes by Yael Naim More Quotes From Yael Naim Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people. Yael Naim song people way When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Yael Naim emotion writing looks Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool. Yael Naim tools helping today I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to. Yael Naim extremes ends song In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life. Yael Naim details quality attention I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new. Yael Naim new-life real soul I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom. Yael Naim real home school Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world. Yael Naim musicians freedom culture world English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words. Yael Naim me you music imagination Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Yael Naim look music language simple As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs. Yael Naim myself love sports people When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether. Yael Naim me confused plant roots My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence. Yael Naim confidence music path ideas I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel. Yael Naim hide say me people I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way. Yael Naim think you paris way Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song. Yael Naim i-am me together song I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs. Yael Naim you music song religion
