I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
GRACE JONESI only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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 think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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