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 story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I’m not, then I’m not going to sing it either. I didn’t even want to sing Aretha Franklin’s ‘Chain of Fools.’ Sharon Jones Read Quote
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. Sharon Jones Read Quote
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. Sharon Jones Read Quote
As for meat, I’m not going to become vegetarian. I’m telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff. I can’t eat processed food. I’ve got to find local farmers and get natural foods. Sharon Jones Read Quote
In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim brotherhood here. It’s just like the outside, but in very closed quarters where you have to get along or else. The sense of claustrophobia in ‘Orange is the New Black’ – that’s real. Sharon Jones Read Quote
I sing this song in church – ‘I don’t believe He brought me this far to leave me.’ I got a feeling that all these shows, all this everything, is part of my blessing. And in my heart, I know I’m going to do every show, and everything is going to be OK. Sharon Jones Read Quote
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. Sharon Jones Read Quote
For me, music is my joy. It’s my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn’t have my love, my joy. Sharon Jones Read Quote
