I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
GRACE JONESMy husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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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I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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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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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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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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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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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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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.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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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