Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Sharon Jones - Page 2

Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!

I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my diaphragm - doctors took mine out in surgery - and my lungs. I've got to build back my legs, too, so I can run across that stage. I've got a lot to do, but I'm going to get out, sing songs and tell the stories.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.

I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

I can't eat processed food.

I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

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.

Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.