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 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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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