I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESI don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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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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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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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; bling always has something to hide.
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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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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 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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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.
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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