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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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Grace Slick
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 30
Composer
Musician
Painter
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Highland Park
Illinois
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Grace Barnett Wing
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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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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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I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
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I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.
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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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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.
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Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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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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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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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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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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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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The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
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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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If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
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If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
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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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