I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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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 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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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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