I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
GRACE JONESI’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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