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Grace Jones

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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Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONES

Athletics Brother Myself
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
GRACE JONES

Clothes Flow Music Myself
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES

Depression Rock Yourself
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONES

Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
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.
GRACE JONES

Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONES

Honesty Life Load Myself People Portray
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONES

Growth Myself Strict
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.
GRACE JONES

Impatience Myself People Terrible
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONES

Attraction Fake Woman
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
GRACE JONES

Children Perfection Yourself
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Drugs Legal Prescription
I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
GRACE JONES

Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
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 JONES

Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself

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