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Rock stars are misfits, but that's not necessarily bad. You need irritation, friction. Even Paradise would get boring if you were there long enough.

Paul Kantner

Grass doesn't seem to affect you terribly. Everybody's got a vice. Everybody takes something. But this band has never been one to burn itself out on anything.

Paul Kantner

The rock bands of the '60s supplanted the football and military heroes, and just as all those heroes had fallen when put to the test, rock musicians proved they had no more of an answer to saving the world than anybody else.

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Somebody once said, if you want to go crazy go to San Francisco. Nobody will notice.

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Rock stars don't go crazy. They drug out. It's just putting shit into your body that it can't deal with.

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We said what needed to be said. There was an obvious call not to turn the other cheek when we were being slapped by the system.

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We found we could get more by circumventing the Establishment than by beating up on it.

Paul Kantner

We never made plans. Well, we made plans, but they went awry. It was good to have a plan in case they didn't go awry.

Paul Kantner

Paul Kantner

Paul Kantner

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Born: March 17, 1941

Died: January 28, 2016 (aged 74)

Bio: Paul Lorin Kantner was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship.

Known for:

Blows Against the Empire (1970)
Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun (1973)
Sunfighter (1971)
Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra (1983)
Dragon Fly (1974)

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