I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
GRACE JONESWhatever; bling always has something to hide.
More Grace Jones Quotes
-
-
Most 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.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONES -
I don’t like people who hide things.
GRACE JONES -
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONES -
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
GRACE JONES -
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONES -
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
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.’
GRACE JONES -
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 JONES -
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
GRACE JONES -
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONES -
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 JONES