Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
GRACE JONESI don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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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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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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 you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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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 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 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 like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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