I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESThere will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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 came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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