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.
GRACE JONESYou can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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