Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Rickie Lee Jones:
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
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I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.
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I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
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I think poetry is best read to oneself.
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I want to work and be happy.
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
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I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
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My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
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I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
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My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
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I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.
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I'm so positive.
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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
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For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
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In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
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Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
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You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.
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I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
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I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.
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I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.
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Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
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I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.
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I've always had an active imagination.
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You never know when you're making a memory.
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I'm terribly human.
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When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
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I didn't have any great job prospects.
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I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
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