My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONESI was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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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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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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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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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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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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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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