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.
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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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 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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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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