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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!
Grace Jones
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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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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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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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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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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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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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My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
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I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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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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I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 a rock star, I'm a soft person.
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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