I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
GRACE JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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 individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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