Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

• 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, Body, Rooms

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• You never know when you're making a memory.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Memories, Aging, Incurable Disease

  Song: Young Blood, 1990

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

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Games, Play, Break

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

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Country, Fall, Political

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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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  Reading, Growing, Rebirth

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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.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Song, Fun, Writing

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

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Thinking, America, Democracy

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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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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  Mother, Strong, Who I Am

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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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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  Hair, Kind, Stage

  "Rickie Lee Jones: 'I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  People, Use, Santa

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• As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

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  Musician, Accomplished, Accomplish

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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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  Children, Party, People

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• He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Sex, Down And, Broke

  Song: The last chance texaco, Album: Rickie Lee Jones

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• Dancin' in the welfare lines.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Dancing, Lines, Welfare

  Song: Weasel and the White Boys Cool, 1990

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

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  Emotional, Levels, Destroyed

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• I want to work and be happy.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Want

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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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  Careers, Graves, Importance

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• Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Sex, Night, Clean

  Song: Young Blood, 1990

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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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  Hate, Thinking, Community

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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• I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

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  Creating, Enjoy, Creating Music

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• There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Giving, No Fear

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• Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Unanswered Questions, Turns

  Song: Flying Cowboys, Album: Flying Cowboys

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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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  Kids, House, Three

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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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  Thinking, Two, People

  "Talking with Rickie Lee Jones". Interview with The New Yorker,

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

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  Careers, Terrible, Managers

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