Rickie Lee Jones's Quotes
Born: 1954-11-08
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Rickie Lee Jones
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.
Tags: Future, Time, WrongI 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.
Tags: Leave, Might, ThreeI 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.
Tags: Childhood, Escape, HereI 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.
Tags: Hate, Time, WomenWhatever 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?
Tags: Done, Said, WhateverAs a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
Tags: Accomplish, Hoped, MusicianI 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.'
Tags: Life, Reading, TimeI had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
Tags: Career, Once, TerribleI like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
Tags: Imagine, Places, WordsI put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
Tags: Put, Singing, WantedI really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
Tags: Enjoy, Making, MusicVisit partners pages
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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.
Tags: Felt, Mother, StrongI'm so positive.
Tags: PositiveI've always had an active imagination.
Tags: Active