Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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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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Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
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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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I've always had an active imagination.
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I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
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Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
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You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.
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As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
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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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For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
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I'm terribly human.
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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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Whatever 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?
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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'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
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My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
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I'm so positive.
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I want to work and be happy.
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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
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You never know when you're making a memory.
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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
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I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
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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.