"I spent my childhood in an imaginary world……" — Rickie Lee Jones
"I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here."
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36 Quotes by Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones has 36 quotes on this site.
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You never know when you're making a memory.
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I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about…
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are…
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
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Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make…
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For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
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I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.
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I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a…
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I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
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I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of…
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As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
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I didn't have any great job prospects.
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
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