Grace Slick Quotes

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Grace Slick

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 30, 1939

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

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Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

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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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If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

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I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

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I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

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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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The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

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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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When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

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'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.

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I'm very fond of drugs.

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

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

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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 while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

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You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,' and I'd say no? That's rude.

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I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

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Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

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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 Ford hybrid with cash.

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