Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
GRACE JONESIt’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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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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 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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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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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