Grace Slick Quotes

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

I think the fact that Gang Starr kept getting more and more successful was the reason we never thought about our age.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich, and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days, but it didn’t work out.

The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.

Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.

I don't look at it as, 'Oh, I'm gonna keep making beats, and I'm gonna do that until I die.' But that's how some people look at it - gonna just keep making beats, get placement after placement.