Sharon Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop.”

“A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.”

“I knew I was going to be famous later in life.”

“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 genuine performer I can be.”

“If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.”

“Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'”

“When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.”

“I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance.”

“People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.”

“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, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.”