I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
GRACE JONESI believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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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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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.
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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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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 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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