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All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire
Grace Slick
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Grace Slick
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 30
Composer
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Highland Park
Illinois
Grace Barnett Slick
Grace Barnett Wing
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Grace Victoria Barnett Wing
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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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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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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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If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
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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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