Words matter. These are the best Rickie Lee Jones Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as ‘spiraling downward.’
My family in general – they’re troubled or poorer people.
As a musician, I’ve accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
I’ve always had an active imagination.
I’m respected, I’m still working, what more could I ask?
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?
Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
I want to work and be happy.
You can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game.
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’m terribly human.
It’s OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
I’m easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
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.
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 think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.
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.
There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
I didn’t have any great job prospects.
