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.
GRACE JONESThere’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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
-
-
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
GRACE JONES -
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
GRACE JONES -
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
GRACE JONES -
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.
GRACE JONES -
I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
GRACE JONES -
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONES -
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONES -
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
GRACE JONES -
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
GRACE JONES