Grace Slick
At Golden Gate Park, 1967. Photo by Jim Marshall
Born: 30 October 1939, Evanston, Illinois
Born Grace Barnett Wing, her family lived in the Chicago area, Los Angeles, and San Francisco before settling at Palo Alto. She attended Palo Alto Senior High School, transferred to Castilleja High School, attended Finch College (New York) and the University of Miami at Coral Gables Florida. She modeled for I. Magnin before deciding that rock and roll paid better and was more fun. With first husband Gerald Slick she started The Great Society in 1965, the following year she joined Jefferson Airplane, bringing two of her songs with her: "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love". When Jefferson Airplane broke up, she produced four solo albums and joined some of her former band mates to create Jefferson Starship. She held the record for oldest female vocalist with a #1 song in the charts twice, with "We Built This City" in 1985 and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in 1987, a record that lasted twelve years. After retiring from music she started drawing and painting, her agent urged her to paint portraits of some of her rock contemporaries for her autobiography. Her work is shown in numerous US galleries and she makes up to 30 appearances a year at art shows.
Biography from Wikipedia and Jefferson Airplane website
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- 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.
- I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
- I smoke every minute that I'm awake and have since I was 15, It's so stupid; it doesn't even get me high. Which is just as well, I suppose. My mind's been altered enough.
- 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.
- I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.
- If you remember the Sixties, you weren't there.
- It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.
- Janis [Joplin] knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand.
- 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.
- 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.
- No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
- One pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
when she's ten feet tall. - The first words I ever heard the alcohol rehab counselor say were 'Good morning, assholes!' With that, I liked him right away.
- 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.
- There is much to be said for personal violence. Even Joan Baez flattens velvet, when she sits down.
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