I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONESI like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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