#me

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#charge #chicago #could #crime #ever

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#anything #every #every time #felt #frightened

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#job #laundry #nursing #nursing home #working

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#credibility #familiar #into #play #somehow

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds. ↗

— Star Jones

#know #lost #nine #now and then #period

I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else. ↗

— Sam J. Jones

#else #going #i #like #play

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bring #find #poetry #some #unless

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#find #finding #i #i feel #important

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#bit #celebrities #easy #endure #hardship