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All Quotes by author - Rickie Lee Jones
" As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish. "
Accomplished
Accomplish
Musician
" For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus. "
Santa
People
Part
" 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. "
Wrong
Kind
Time
" I didn't have any great job prospects. "
Great
Prospects
Job
" 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.' "
Time
Reading
Life
" I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' "
Career
Manager
Once
" I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. "
Places
Words
More
" I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels. "
Destroyed
Easily
Emotional
" I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask? "
Respected
Still
More
" I'm so positive. "
Positive
" I'm terribly human. "
Terribly
Human
" 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. "
Leave
House
Kid
" 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. "
Children
People
Opinion
" I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. "
Me
Singing
People
" I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. "
Creating
Live
Enjoy
" 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. "
World
People
Escape
" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "
Best
Think
Poetry
" I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over. "
Dying
Over
Think
" It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart. "
Your
Political
OK
" I've always had an active imagination. "
Imagination
Had
Active
" I want to work and be happy. "
Happy
Want
Work
" 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. "
You
Mother
I Am
" 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. "
Say
Hate
Time
" My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. "
Troubled
Family
General
" My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. "
Laundry
Worst
Home
" Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff. "
Really
Always
Popular
" Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. "
Credibility
Familiar
Play
" There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best. "
No Fear
Before
Best
" 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? "
Empire
See
Create
" When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing. "
Everything
Career
My Life
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