I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONESWhen 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
-
-
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 -
I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
GRACE JONES -
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
GRACE JONES -
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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 -
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
GRACE JONES -
I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
GRACE JONES -
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
GRACE JONES -
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONES -
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
GRACE JONES -
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES






