When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONESI don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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Whatever 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.
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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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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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