I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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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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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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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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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 would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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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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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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When 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.
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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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Disco 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!
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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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