Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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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 don’t like people who hide things.
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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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