The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer… — 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 was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I sing this song in church - 'I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me.' I got a feeling… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I worked in corrections because they had told me I wasn't going to make it in the music business. You know, when… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging… — 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