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 JONESTo be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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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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’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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There 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.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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