Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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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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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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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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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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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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