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.
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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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 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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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