Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I didn’t have any great job prospects.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Births

• 1976 - Aaron Stanford
• 1943 - Martha Shelley
• 1931 - Scotty Moore
• 1906 - Oscar Levant
• 1901 - Marlene Dietrich

Deaths

• 1938 - Zona Gale
• 2003 - Alan Bates
• 1985 - Potter Stewart
• 1994 - Marjorie Joyner