I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONESIf people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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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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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 always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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