If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
GRACE JONESEven if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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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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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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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 don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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