Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

• As a musician, I’ve accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

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  Tags in Accomplished, Musician, Hoped

• For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

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  Tags in Claus

• 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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  Tags in Anything, Kind

• 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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  Tags in New, Person, Reading

• 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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  Tags in Over, Leave

• There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Best

• You can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game.

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  Tags in Break, Rules

• I didn’t have any great job prospects.

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  Tags in Prospects

• You never know when you’re making a memory.

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• I had a terrible manager once who described my career as ‘spiraling downward.’

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  Tags in Career, Once, Terrible

• 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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  Tags in Put, Wanted, Singing

• 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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  Tags in Feel, Words, Imaging

• 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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  Tags in Here, Escape, Childhood

• I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

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  Tags in Music, Live, Enjoy

• I think poetry is best read to oneself.

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  Tags in Best, Read, Poetry

• I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

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  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Over

• I want to work and be happy.

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  Tags in Happy

• 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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  Tags in Strong, Felt

• 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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  Tags in Women, Hate, Help

• I’m easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

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  Tags in Emotional, Destroyed, Easily

Rickie Lee Jones (32)

Birth:	8th November, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Lyricist

About

Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a career of over three decades, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.

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