Top 60 Grace Slick Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head.”

— Grace Slick

2. “When you get older, it’s not about what you did that you regret, it’s what you didn’t do.”

— Grace Slick

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

— Grace Slick

4. “No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”

— Grace Slick

5. “I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don’t know, therefore I’m open. I don’t know, therefore I’m interested.”

— Grace Slick

6. “Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.”

— Grace Slick

7. “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

8. “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.”

— Grace Slick

9. “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.”

— Grace Slick

10. “I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.”

— Grace Slick

11. “I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.”

— Grace Slick

12. “Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”

— Grace Slick

13. “I don’t miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It’s like asking, ‘Do you miss the fourth grade?’ I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don’t want to do it again.”

— Grace Slick

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

— Grace Slick

15. “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

16. “If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I’m kind of annoyed that I’m not.”

— Grace Slick

17. “It’s none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.”

— Grace Slick

18. “I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.”

— Grace Slick

19. “I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It’s hard to keep an eye on the kid while you’re hallucinating.”

— Grace Slick

20. “Feed your head” means read a book.”

— Grace Slick

21. “Death is like taking an intermission when you can’t come back. I like living and being around.”

— Grace Slick

22. “Through your life, most people peel away the junk that’s not useful, that’s superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.”

— Grace Slick

23. “Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn’t necessarily mean something is good. It just means it’s big.”

— Grace Slick

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

— Grace Slick

25. “It’s all going the way it’s supposed to be going Otherwise, it would be going some other way.” – SANDY HARPER, 1978.”

— Grace Slick

26. “It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it’s really possible to have tasty stuff and it’s better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.”

— Grace Slick

27. “All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire.”

— Grace Slick

28. “I don’t want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.”

— Grace Slick

29. “I’m 5 feet 7 but my legs weren’t long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I’d be 5 feet 9.”

— Grace Slick

30. “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.”

— Grace Slick

31. “You are the crown of creation, and you’ve got no place to go.”

— Grace Slick

32. “God is all over the place. And even if He isn’t, if it makes me feel good, why not?”

— Grace Slick

33. “People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.”

— Grace Slick

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

— Grace Slick

35. “Things change so fast, you can’t use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.”

— Grace Slick

36. “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.”

— Grace Slick

37. “Anyone who’s 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.”

— Grace Slick

38. “Without alcohol I’d be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer’s fees.”

— Grace Slick

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce – she’s a really good entertainer.”

— Grace Slick

43. “I’m very fond of drugs.”

— Grace Slick

44. “Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.”

— Grace Slick

45. “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.”

— Grace Slick

46. “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.”

— Grace Slick

47. “Applause is interesting, but I’m a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn’t. ‘White Rabbit’ is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn’t say what I wanted.”

— Grace Slick

48. “Rock roll is not obscure, it’s really easy to understand. So is my painting.”

— Grace Slick

49. “In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.”

— Grace Slick

50. “You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you’re 25. To me it’s embarrassing.”

— Grace Slick