Grace Slick Quotes
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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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I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
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When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.
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Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
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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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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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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
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I'm very fond of drugs.
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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
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I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
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Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head
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Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter.
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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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I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
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It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.
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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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In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.
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Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
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Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
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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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In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.
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I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.
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God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?
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I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
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I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.
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I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.
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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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All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire
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