Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

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Rickie Lee Jones

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1954

I've always had an active imagination.

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I'm so positive.

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

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

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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 think poetry is best read to oneself.

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

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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.

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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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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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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 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 want to work and be happy.

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

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

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I'm terribly human.

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

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