Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Sharon Jones

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• Singing

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• With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Think
  • Free

• I do get free stuff.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Free
  • Stuff
  • Free Stuff

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Question

• My daughter loves singing above all else.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Singing
  • Daughter
  • Above

• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Family
  • Happy

• If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Films

• I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Always

• I love singing. I love singing at home.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Love
  • Home
  • Singing

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Person
  • Guilty
  • Found

• My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of this. I'm just going to be with who I want to be with.' So I've been raised by women, through my mom and also my aunt. My aunt is bi, and most of her partners have been women. I was always surrounded by a very strong tribe of people.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

  

  Brit Hume
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Likes
  • Sweden
  • Norway

• I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Forgiveness
  • Acceptance
  • Wounds

• I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Singing