I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESMy husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a 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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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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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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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