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.
GRACE JONESWhatever 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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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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I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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 just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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