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  • Vocalist
  • born 1954
  • 39 quotes

Rickie Lee Jones, a vocalist (born 1954), is quoted 39 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are People, Thinking, Jobs and Sex.

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I'm terribly human.

I want to work and be happy.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

I've always had an active imagination.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

You never know when you're making a memory.

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

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

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

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

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

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

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

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

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.

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

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

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

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

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.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

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.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

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.

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.'

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.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

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