Grace Slick

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

— Grace Slick

It was the first time many of the bands had met and saw each other perform, so we were all really marveling at each other. It was just one good group of people after another. And different kinds of music — from Jimi Hendrix to Ravi Shankar, The Mamas and the Papas to The Who. They had a backstage area where there was food being served 24 hours a day, so everybody was wandering around meeting each other. It was just amazing.

— Grace Slick

She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

— Grace Slick

But we all do sort of the same thing and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and, uh, they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's, uh, 24 letters in between.

— Grace Slick

One pill makes you largerWhen she's ten feet tall.

— Grace Slick

And if you go chasing rabbitsWhen she was just small

— Grace Slick

When the men on the chessboardI think she'll know.

— Grace Slick

When logic and proportion"Feed your head! Feed your head!"

— Grace Slick

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.

— Grace Slick

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

— Grace Slick

Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

— Grace Slick

The first words I ever heard the alcohol rehab counselor say were 'Good morning, assholes!' With that, I liked him right away.

— Grace Slick

The wiser you get on the inside, the uglier you get on the outside. The world's great gurus have beautiful things to say but they generally look like shit.

— Grace Slick

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

— Grace Slick

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.

— Grace Slick

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

— Grace Slick

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

— Grace Slick

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.

— Grace Slick