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.
GRACE JONESMost performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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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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 can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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 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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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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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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