Latest Grace Jones Quotes from Interviews

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• For some reason, I can inspire things that are in good taste, but then sometimes I can also inspire, like, wooooow. Some producers have this really sexual idea, and they're like, "Now I can do this, with her!" And I will just go: non, non, non. That's not me, it's you. You're projecting, man.

  Grace Jones

  Men, Inspire, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it's somewhere in my head, in my travel space, and it just comes out. It's a visual thing that happens unintentionally. People will tell me, "You do realize you just spoke with that accent, right?" And I'll go, "Oh, did I?" So it's not something I think about. As we talk, I have a visual about my speech and it just comes out like that. If that makes any sense!

  Grace Jones

  Thinking, People, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Years, Two, Live For Today

  Source: thequietus.com

• Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.

  Grace Jones

  Party, Rocks, Names

  Source: thequietus.com

• When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

  Grace Jones

  Long, Broken, Enough

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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

  Celebration, Sometimes, Get Up

  Source: thequietus.com

• Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

  Grace Jones

  Differences, Drug, Illegal

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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.

  Grace Jones

  Long, Giving, Drug

  Source: thequietus.com

• In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

  Grace Jones

  Smart, School, America

  Source: thequietus.com

• I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

  Grace Jones

  Hate, Drug, Prescriptions

  Source: thequietus.com

• I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

  Grace Jones

  Moving, Years, Snow

  Source: thequietus.com

• Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

  Grace Jones

  Emotional, Robots, Stills

  Source: thequietus.com

• Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

  Grace Jones

  Song, Soul, Moments

  Source: thequietus.com

• 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.

  Grace Jones

  Morning, Sunset, Sleep

  Source: thequietus.com

• Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.

  Grace Jones

  Gun, Feet, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

• Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

  Grace Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Weakness

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

  Grace Jones

  Attitude, Thinking, Animal

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• 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.

  Grace Jones

  Men, Energy, Use

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• 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

  Brother, Boys, Makeup

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• 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.

  Grace Jones

  Mother, Stars, Opposites

  "Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

  Grace Jones

  Different, Three, Fur

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

  Grace Jones

  Fur, Designer

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

• I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

  Grace Jones

  Fur, Looks, Ifs

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.