Grace Slick
Grace Slick
Grace Barnett Slick is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. Her career spanned all or parts of four decades, most notably with Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship bands. She started with The Great Society and also had stints as a solo performer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth30 October 1939
CityHighland Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.
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.
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.
It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.
God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?
Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.
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.
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.