Rickie Lee Jones famous quotes

You never know when you're making a memory.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Memories

I think poetry is best read to oneself.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Thinking #Poetry Is #Oneself

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Sex #Down And #Broke

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Sex #Night #Disgrace

Dancin' in the welfare lines.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Dancing #Lines #Welfare

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Unanswered Questions #Turns

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Jobs #Home #Nursing

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Reading #Growing #Rebirth

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Thinking #America #Democracy

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Mother #Strong #Who I Am

I didn't have any great job prospects.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Jobs #Great Job

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Musician #Accomplished #Accomplish

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Song #Fun #Writing

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

#Air #Rooms #Body

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Giving #No Fear

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Thinking #Two #People

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Hate #Thinking #Community

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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Hair #Kind #Stage

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Creating #Enjoy #Creating Music

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

#People #Singing #Jazz

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Careers #Terrible

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

#Careers #Graves #Importance

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Play #Credibility #Familiar

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Stuff #Popular Music

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

#People #My Family

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Country #Fall #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.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Children #Party #People

I've always had an active imagination.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Imagination #Active

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Stills

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Emotional #Levels

I want to work and be happy.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#Want

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
-- Rickie Lee Jones

#People #Santa #Use