Top 97 Quotes About Grace Jones
#2. The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"
Jerry Seinfeld
#3. I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.
ASAP Ferg
#4. Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.
Lorde
#5. (To clarify, when white people say dark they mean Greek or Italian but when black people say dark they mean Grace Jones.)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#6. 'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.
Drew Sidora
#7. I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it.
Philip Treacy
#8. I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.
Kemp Muhl
#9. My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.
Estelle
#10. I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person at all, but there's something about playing dress-up for the day and playing the role of a singer.
Jessie Ware
#11. I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.
Grace Jones
#12. And said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.
Diana Wynne Jones
#13. I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
Grace Jones
#14. You can't expect your children to be perfect.
Grace Jones
#15. I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
Grace Jones
#16. It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false ...
Grace Jones
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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.
Grace Jones
#20. To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
Grace Jones
#21. We tend to have a wrong view of law and to think of it as something that is opposed to grace. But it is not. Law is only opposed to grace in the sense that there was once a covenant of law, and we are now under the covenant of grace.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#22. I can't run out of different ideas. I am different. When can I run out of me?
Grace Jones
#23. Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
Grace Jones
#24. 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.
Grace Jones
#26. 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
#27. There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.
Grace Jones
#28. My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
Grace Jones
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
Grace Jones
#33. Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
Grace Jones
#34. 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
#35. I am an actress first, a singer second.
Grace Jones
#36. I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.
Grace Jones
#37. They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
Carrie Jones
#38. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
E. Stanley Jones
#39. Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'
E. Stanley Jones
#40. I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.
Grace Jones
#41. We must never look at any sin in our past life in any way except that which leads us to praise God and to magnify His grace in Christ Jesus.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#43. I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
Grace Jones
#44. You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
Grace Jones
#45. 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.
Grace Jones
#46. Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Grace Jones
#47. I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
Grace Jones
#48. I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt ... I hate them.
Grace Jones
#49. 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
#50. Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.
Alexis Jones
#51. The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
Renae Jones
#52. It's a difficult thing to offer leadership to a people who have lost control over their future. But offer it I must. And when I look around me and see the dignity displayed by our last generation, see their elegance and their grace, it fills me with pride even as it tears at my heart.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#53. I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
Grace Jones
#54. I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.
Grace Jones
#55. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
Grace Jones
#56. When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.
Grace Jones
#57. 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
#58. There is nothing to add to that. Any man who has had some glimpse of what it is to preach will inevitably feel that he has never preached. But he will go on trying, hoping that by the grace of God one day he may truly preach.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#59. Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
Grace Jones
#60. I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
Grace Jones
#61. 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.
Grace Jones
#62. Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
Grace Jones
#63. If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#64. I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
Grace Jones
#65. 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
#66. 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.
Grace Jones
#67. This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking
Grace Jones
#68. We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
Grace Jones
#69. It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.
Grace Jones
#70. I thought I'd take style to its limit ... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
Grace Jones
#72. Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
Grace Jones
#73. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Grace Jones
#74. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.
David Lloyd-Jones
#78. When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.
Grace Jones
#79. Grace is especially associated with men in their sins; mercy is especially associated with men in their misery.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#80. I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.
Grace Jones
#81. I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.
Grace Jones
#82. I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.
Grace Jones
#83. I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
Grace Jones
#84. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
Bob Christopher
#85. 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.
Grace Jones
#86. 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.
Grace Jones
#87. I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
Grace Jones
#88. 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.
Grace Jones
#89. 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.
Grace Jones
#90. I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.
Grace Jones
#91. 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
#92. My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'
Grace Jones
#93. You have something much more enduring than beauty," she said severely. "And what is that?" "Grace," she said simply. "Grace, and talent." I
S. Jae-Jones
#94. The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#95. I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
Quincy Jones
#96. I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
Grace Jones
#97. Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
Grace Jones
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