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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Grace Jones

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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking
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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 thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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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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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 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.
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I don't like people who hide things.
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I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.
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Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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'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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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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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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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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We're not perfect we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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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 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 was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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