Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
GRACE JONESGrowing 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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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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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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 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.
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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.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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