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!
GRACE JONESI don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 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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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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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’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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 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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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