Top 70 Grace Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “I don’t like people who hide things.”

— Grace Jones

4. “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

5. “This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking.”

— Grace Jones

6. “When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.”

— Grace Jones

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7. “Be your own sugar daddy!”

— Grace Jones

8. “We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.”

— Grace Jones

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.”

— Grace Jones

14. “I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.”

— Grace Jones

15. “I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.”

— Grace Jones

16. “If you are lonely when you are alone, you’re in bad company.”

— Grace Jones

17. “My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’”

— Grace Jones

18. “Oh,” he’d say, “nobody gets me on the dance floor but you, Grace,” as we danced to Michael Jackson. He loved Michael. They made a nice couple. I was also one of the few who could get Michael Jackson on a club dance floor dancing for the sake of it. I would have been best man for both of them if they had married, which in some universe was their destiny.”

— Grace Jones

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

— Grace Jones

20. “If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind – often.”

— Grace Jones

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

— Grace Jones

22. “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

23. “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

24. “One boyfriend told me that I loved myself too much. I thought, Well, you can love a boyfriend too much, but you can’t love yourself too much. Sometimes you have to love yourself to keep yourself whole. Something.”

— Grace Jones

25. “I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.”

— Grace Jones

26. “Whatever; bling always has something to hide.”

— Grace Jones

27. “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

28. “Those who demand that you conform the most to how they live are the ones who are the most scared and intimidated by life. I.”

— Grace Jones

29. “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

30. “I was the first to be sent “Boogie Wonderland” and I turned it down because I didn’t believe in it. Can you imagine me singing “Boogie Wonderland”? Preposterous.”

— Grace Jones

31. “I can’t run out of different ideas. I am different. When can I run out of me?”

— Grace Jones

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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.”

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35. “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

36. “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

37. “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

38. “I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.”

— Grace Jones

39. “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

40. “I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.”

— Grace Jones

41. “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

42. “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

43. “There had been the very Jamaican revival religion that flourished in the nineteenth century, in which African rituals and Jamaican folk traditions were mixed with Christian belief, and many revivalists easily took to Pentecostalism because of its vibrant energy and faith in the power of healing. Pentecostalism incorporated rituals, spirits, and visions, but without seeming unchristian or unbiblical.”

— Grace Jones

44. “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

45. “I am an actress first, a singer second.”

— Grace Jones

46. “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

47. “I can be a pain, but most of all, I can be a pleasure.”

— Grace Jones

48. “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

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49. “My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.”

— Grace Jones

50. “There was always someone else in the way until I worked out how to make myself the one who was in the way of others.”

— Grace Jones