I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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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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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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 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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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