Sharon Jones Quotes - Page 2

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• My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.

  Sharon Jones

  Years, Goal, Forever

  "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

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• My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

  Sharon Jones

  Spring, Home, Cooks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

  Sharon Jones

  Email, Fans, Management

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.

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  Song, Morning, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

  Sharon Jones

  Years, Sightseeing, Spots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.

  Sharon Jones

  Eight, Years, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

  Sharon Jones

  Looks, Records, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

  Sharon Jones

  Blessed, People, Environment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

  Sharon Jones

  Baby, Teenager, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!

  Sharon Jones

  Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

  Sharon Jones

  Islands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

  Sharon Jones

  Years, Two, Big Sister

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my diaphragm - doctors took mine out in surgery - and my lungs. I've got to build back my legs, too, so I can run across that stage. I've got a lot to do, but I'm going to get out, sing songs and tell the stories.

  Sharon Jones

  Running, Song, Doctors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.

  Sharon Jones

  Kings, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.

  Sharon Jones

  Exercise, Voice, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

  Sharon Jones

  Teaching, Play, Voice

  "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.

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• Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.

  Sharon Jones

  Cancer, Get Up, Ifs

  "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.

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• I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

  Sharon Jones

  People, Giving, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

  Sharon Jones

  Done, Has Beens

  "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.

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• When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

  Sharon Jones

  Summer, Past, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.

  Sharon Jones

  Alcohol, Knows, One Thing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

  Sharon Jones

  Doctors, Alcohol, Sugar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

  Sharon Jones

  Dresses, Different, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

  Sharon Jones

  Natural, Farmers, Locals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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