For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't… — 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
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do… — 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
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 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
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
At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
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
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
As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' — Sharon Jones Copy Share
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
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
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
I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my… — Sharon Jones Copy Share
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody… — Sharon Jones Copy Share
God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me... — Sharon Jones Copy Share
