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Grace Slick Biography

Grace Barnett Slick (born October 30, 1939) 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 music career spanned four decades. She performed with The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship. She also had a sporadic solo career. Slick provided vocals on a number of iconic songs, including "Somebody to Love," "White Rabbit," "We Built This City," and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."

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It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France. ' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

France, Gee, Life, Life Is, Sit, Thinking

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

Cake, Chocolate, Food, Pigs, Vegan

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.

Guy, Germany, Bars, Fingers, Nostrils, Ingested

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.

Abstract, Colorful, Paintings, Rocks, Simple, Talking

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

Purpose, Prancing, Stage, Entire, Life

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.

Concerned, Long, Professionally, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

Animal, Fake, Fur, Kill, Make, Reason

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

Good, Mind, People, Think, Thinking

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Can Do, Dead, Drop, Mainly, Make, Music

The same person is coming through in a different medium. . . . My art is simple, direct and definite.

Art, Definite, Different, Medium, Simple

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.

Come, Come Up, Ideas, Like, People

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

Old, People, Scary, Thinking

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.

Encouraging, Kind, Parent, Success, Talent, Would Be

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

Old, Old People, People, Rocks, Roll

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

Older, Regret

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

Albums, Beginning, Full, Half, Picture, Solo

Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.

Distributing, Government, Jobs, Live, People, Pleasant

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

Dies, Found, Joy, Lying, Serious Man, Truth

I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Animal, Toys, Stores, Stuffed, Collect

It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.

Control, Jobs, Maintain, Office, Thinking, Writing

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