I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs. — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. — 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… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a… — 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
I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it… — 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
Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's… — 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
As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects,"… — 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 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 remember going into a raggedy studio, still with my work uniform on. At the time, I was driving money trucks for… — 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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