I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
GRACE JONESWhatever 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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 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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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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 believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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