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

Grace Slick

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Grace Slick
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 30
Composer
Musician
Painter
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Highland Park
Illinois
Grace Barnett Slick
Grace Barnett Wing
Grace Wing Slick
Grace Victoria Barnett Wing
Artist
Art
Music
Commercial

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Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.
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You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go Na-na-na-na on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.
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Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.
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I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
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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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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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Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.
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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
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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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My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.
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Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.
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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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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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Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
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When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
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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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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
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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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