I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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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’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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