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I can't eat processed food.

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Sharon Jones
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: November 18
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Augusta
Georgia
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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.
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I just want to give my love to God.
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Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.
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I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.
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There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.
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Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.
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Sometimes people look at our covers and say, That looks just like that other cover. I say, And? It reminds them of a cover from way back when. If you know the cover, then pull it out and compare it. I don't care. It's supposed to bring back memories.
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I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.
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Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
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I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.
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I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.
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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.
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I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.
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Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.
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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.
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Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.
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Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.
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I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!
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My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.
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[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
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