I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONESI only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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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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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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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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.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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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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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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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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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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