Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat,… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I never got to meet Michael Jackson, and he's gone - so to be on stage with Prince was like if Michael...… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree with the… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most. — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas,… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
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