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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.

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
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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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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
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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 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 don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
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All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire
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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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If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
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Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
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I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
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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 same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
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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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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 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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