Quotes by Grace Slick

About Grace Slick:

Grace Slick is an American singer, songwriter, artist, and former model, best known as one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, as well as for her work as a solo artist from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s.
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There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my F...

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Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

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People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Alt...

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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

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I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

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It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

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You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

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You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

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Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

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Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

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Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

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I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

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You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

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Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

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I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

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'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines whi...

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I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.

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Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

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One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that w...

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Author Bio

  • NameGrace Slick
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, writer and painter
  • BornOctober 30, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician; Singer-songwriter