"When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And youve just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low. Go ask Alice I think shell know."
Grace Slick is an American painter and musician whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
"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 youre so busy going from A to Z, that theres, uh, 24 letters in between."
"And if you go chasing rabbits And you know youre going to fall, Tell em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. Call Alice When she was just small"
"In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guys nostrils because I thought they would fit."
"One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you Dont do anything at all. Go ask Alice When shes ten feet tall."
"Ive enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap."
"I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didnt mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive."