Rickie Lee Jones

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

#god #most #part #people #santa

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. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#anything #every #every time #felt #frightened

I didn't have any great job prospects. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#great #great job #i #job #prospects

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.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #diminishes #get #growing #i

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

#bodies #distant #feel #i #imagine

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. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#gong #house #i #just #kid

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

#because #coming #i #jazz #know

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

#enjoy #i #live #making #music

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

— Rickie Lee Jones

#accomplished #hoped #i #musician