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.
GRACE JONESI don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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