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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.

Grace Jones

I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
GRACE JONES

Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
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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Known Live Myself Week
I am an actress first, a singer second.
GRACE JONES

Actress Myself Singing
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

Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
GRACE JONES

Fantasy Modeling People Reality
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONES

Hate Prescription Yourself
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONES

Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
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!
GRACE JONES

Celebration Dance God Human Music
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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Head Injection Moments Myself Soul Throat
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONES

Growth Myself Strict
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
GRACE JONES

Design Myself Start
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.’
GRACE JONES

Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
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

Farmer Happiness Job Life Myself Passion

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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