Quotes by Grace Jones

About Grace Jones:

Grace Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, and actress. She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica and raised by her grandparents. At 13 she moved with her siblings to their parents' home in Syracuse, New York. Jones started out as a model, initially in New York state, then in Paris, working for Yves St. Laurent, Claude Montana, and Kenzo Takada, and appearing on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Stern working with Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer.
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I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Grace Jones

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

Grace Jones

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Grace Jones

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 turne...

Grace Jones

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Grace Jones

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.

Grace Jones

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

Grace Jones

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

Grace Jones

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

Grace Jones

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

Grace Jones

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Grace Jones

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

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

Grace Jones

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.

Grace Jones

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

Grace Jones

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.

Grace Jones

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

Grace Jones

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

Grace Jones

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

Grace Jones

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Grace Jones

Author Bio

  • NameGrace Jones
  • DescriptionJamaican singer, actress and model
  • BornMay 19, 1948
  • CountryJamaica
  • ProfessionActor; Model; Singer