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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.

Grace Jones

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

Animal Goodness Yourself
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.
GRACE JONES

Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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

Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
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
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 JONES

Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
GRACE JONES

Myself Relationship Woman
I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
GRACE JONES

Limitation Myself Pride Style Thinking
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
GRACE JONES

Impatience Myself People Terrible
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.
GRACE JONES

Crazy Passing Planning Replacement Version
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

Head Injection Moments Myself Soul Throat
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONES

Design Myself Start
I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
GRACE JONES

Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
GRACE JONES

Myself Save Simplicity Sin
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Myself Serious
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
GRACE JONES

Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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

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