I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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 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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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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 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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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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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 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 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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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