I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONESForget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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 never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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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.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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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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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 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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