I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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 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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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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