When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONESDisco 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!
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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.
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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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When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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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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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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Growing 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.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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