Grace Slick Quotes

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice that there are less and less parts for me in my own writing.

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

After seeing some of my emotional scenes, I end up thinking I could've done it better.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

I think my play speaks for itself.

Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won't be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing at hand in favor of a more convenient analysis of his or her own particular pet peeves and straw men?

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?