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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

Grace Jones

I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
GRACE JONES

Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
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

Appearance Man Modeling Myself Start
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Myself Serious
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONES

Earlier Father Image Myself
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONES

Animal Goodness Yourself
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

Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES

Depression Rock Yourself
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.
GRACE JONES

Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
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

Compromise Creation Oneself Weapon
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.
GRACE JONES

Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
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.
GRACE JONES

Coffee Talk Wine
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONES

Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
GRACE JONES

Break Enough Modeling Rule Start
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONES

Appearance Education Myself School
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!
GRACE JONES

Celebration Dance God Human Music
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONES

Growth Myself Strict

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