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