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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’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.
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When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
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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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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.
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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 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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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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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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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.
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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 have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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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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