Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
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
Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music. — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood.… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first… — 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
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'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing tonight?' I'm sitting home watching it. But… — 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… — 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 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'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
![“This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.” quote by Sharon Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e77/sharon-jones-8033_albums_this-album-give-the-people-what-they-wan_995540.jpg)
![“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 fitting title.” quote by Sharon Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d44/sharon-jones-8033_cancer_we-chose-it-s-name-give-the-people-what_184826.jpg)
