Best 24 quotes of Rickie Lee Jones on MyQuotes

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

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

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.

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.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

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

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.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

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

I've always had an active imagination.

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.

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.

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

You never know when you're making a memory.