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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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Grace Slick
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 30
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Highland Park
Illinois
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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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Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.
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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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Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
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People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt 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 Altamont.
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I'm very fond of drugs.
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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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Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.
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If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
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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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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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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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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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I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.
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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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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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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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All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire
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