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 JONESI’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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.
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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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