I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONESDisco 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!
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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 would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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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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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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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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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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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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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