Grace Slick Quotes
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With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.
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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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Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head.
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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 like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.
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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
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I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
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Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
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You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.
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It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.
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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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The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
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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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Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
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It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.
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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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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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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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I'm very fond of drugs.
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I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.
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If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
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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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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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It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.