Pirates é o segundo álbum de estúdio da cantora-compositora americana Rickie Lee Jones, lançado em 15 de julho de 1981, pela Warner Bros. Records. A sequência de seu álbum de estreia autointitulado de 1979, Pirates é parcialmente um relato de seu rompimento com o colega músico Tom Waits após o sucesso de seu álbum de estreia. A capa é uma foto de 1976 com direitos autorais de Brassaï.
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“P IRACY , n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.”
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
“When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.”
“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
“[The United States] has gone to the extent of carrying out modern acts of piracy, stopping ships in the middle of the ocean and stealing cargo that was paid for by the Venezuelan people.”
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
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