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.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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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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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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