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.
GRACE JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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