Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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Dancin' in the welfare lines.
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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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I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.
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You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.
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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 respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
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I didn't have any great job prospects.
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My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
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I want to work and be happy.
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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.
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I think poetry is best read to oneself.
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For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
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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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As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
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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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Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
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You never know when you're making a memory.
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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'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
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I've always had an active imagination.
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Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.
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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 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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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
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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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He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.
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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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Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?
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I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.
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