Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Single, Everything, Career

• 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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  Tags in Done, Said, Whatever

• Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

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  Tags in Credibility

• Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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  Tags in Popular, Music

• My family in general – they’re troubled or poorer people.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Troubled, General

• My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Home, Working

• It’s OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political

• 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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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Care, Old

• I’ve always had an active imagination.

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  Tags in Active

• I’m terribly human.

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  Tags in Human, Terrible

• I’m respected, I’m still working, what more could I ask?

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  Tags in Still, Working, Ask

• I’m so positive.

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  Topics in Positive

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

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  Tags in Emotional, Destroyed, Easily

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Hate, Help

• 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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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Strong, Felt

• I want to work and be happy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy

• 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 think poetry is best read to oneself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Read, Poetry

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Here, Escape, Childhood

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

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Live, Enjoy

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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