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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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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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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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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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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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