I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONESSome songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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’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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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