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 JONESMusic has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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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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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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