Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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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 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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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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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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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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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 too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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