Flashing Fierceness of Wisdom - What is the Best Thing Stevie Has Ever Said?

[Ghost_Tracker]

ALL-righty I thought this could be an interesting thread -

What is the BEST thing that Stevie has EVER said? ( Wisest, most profound, most helpful to you personally, etc. ) Either in a song, an interview, a journal entry, w/e, it's all good.
I have my own opinion already but I'm curious to see what others might say about this first. . . . . :nod: :D

[David]

Also, another time she said, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." I. Was. Quite. Impressed.

But the wisest thing she ever said was, "There is no beauty/Without my beast."

[StreetAngel86]

Maybe you never knew me
Maybe you thought that I'd never
CHANGE
But you know I'm changing and
YOU'RE WRONG

is very fitting at this point in my life :nod:

but my profoundest thing ever, coz I think it is true
and it's totally what I believe

'I love people that are really themselves and go right on being themselves no matter what anybody tells you because, you know, in the long run, you are going to be with yourself.'

:D :D :D :D

[foxyluva]

Maybe you never knew me
Maybe you thought that I'd never
CHANGE
But you know I'm changing and
YOU'RE WRONG


And its been like dying
Oh loves not hard to find,
but Im tired of,
I am tired of trying

So I changed the lyrics slightly :laugh:

Great Stevie line none the less

[tynan88]

My favourite Stevie line ever is "If you f@#k with my people, I am going to get very f#@$%ng angry!" - I hope that is right.

[tuigirl]

Don't forget about the "if Lindsey and I explode into a mass of timbers, at least the album will be done and thats all that matters" or words to that effect in the DR dvd.:laugh:

[jannieC]

At the RAL concert, just before she did HAEWYFY, she said something along the lines of how much she loved us and how she wished she could sit down with us individually and hang out and talk because we were her WHOLE LIFE. My father had just died and that song was really powerful for me, so when she said all that, I just burst into tears. :o

[Richard B]

Something about this lyric gets me everytime. So much imagery that let's me go somewhere else in my mind:

Step into the velvet of the morning
Let yourself lay back within your dreams

[David]

Something about this lyric gets me everytime. So much imagery that let's me go somewhere else in my mind:

Step into the velvet of the morning
Let yourself lay back within your dreamsLet yourself LIE back within your dreams, Stephanie!! :thumbsup:

Personally, I think "step into the velvet of the morning" is a Stevie metaphor for masturbation.

[BlackWidow]

"When the rain washes you clean..you'll know!"

[THINKABOUTIT]

Something about this lyric gets me everytime. So much imagery that let's me go somewhere else in my mind:

Step into the velvet of the morning
Let yourself lay back within your dreams

aah geeez....that's my fave Stevie song..whatdaya know lol :blob1:

[THINKABOUTIT]

well on a funny note, I loved it when Stevie was on Jay Leno promotiong TISL and when Jay asked her paper or plastic, she said "If I ever went to the market, I would say cash".....then....."no no, I was no inspired by the OJ trial" :lol:

[Richard B]

Let yourself LIE back within your dreams, Stephanie!! :thumbsup:
But lay back sounds better, damn it.

Personally, I think "step into the velvet of the morning" is a Stevie metaphor for masturbation.
Nice, David. What is this, Confessions of a Dirty Mind?

I could almost see that except for the next 2 lines:
Take on the situation but not the torment
Now you know its not as bad as it seems

[David]

Nice, David. What is this, Confessions of a Dirty Mind?No, no....it's just that I believe that Stevie has been weakly misread, & that out of this misprision the steamily rubescent sexuality in her songs has been marginalized. I'd like to see critical analyses of that aspect of her art, to bring the erogenous zone to the center, as it were--similar to the way Camille Paglia strongly misread Emily Dickinson & restored Emily's vampirism, voyeurism, lesbianism & fetishism. Stevie is our modern-day DICKinson, I believe.
I could almost see that except for the next 2 lines:
Take on the situation but not the torment
Now you know its not as bad as it seemsWell maybe that part came from an adjoining or unrelated page in her journal. :shrug: :lol:

[BlackWidow]

But lay back sounds better, damn it.


Nice, David. What is this, Confessions of a Dirty Mind?

I could almost see that except for the next 2 lines:
Take on the situation but not the torment
Now you know its not as bad as it seems
Saw your photo on other thread..YOU ARE HOT!!!!:xoxo:

[Richard B]

Saw your photo on other thread..YOU ARE HOT!!!!:xoxo:
Awww. Thank you! That's very nice of you to say.

[BlackWidow]

Awww. Thank you! That's very nice of you to say.
Left a question for you on ASK A LEDGIE Thread.....

[Johnny Stew]

Personally, I think "step into the velvet of the morning" is a Stevie metaphor for masturbation.I thought only guys liked doing that first thing in the morning? :shrug:

[danax6]

I thought only guys liked doing that first thing in the morning? :shrug:No.

Thanks David, you've polluted my mind. I can't ever take this song seriously anymore now.

Well I know you'd like to come away
But baby, you can't come

[Richard B]

I thought only guys liked doing that first thing in the morning? :shrug:
Morning, noon and night.

Get a grip.

[Johnny Stew]

Morning, noon and night.:laugh:
A man after my own heart (or libido). ;)

[Richard B]

:laugh:
A man after my own heart (or libido). ;)
Ha! My libido is quite out of control. I'm so lucky that way.
Stiff wind up my pant leg will do it everytime.

Hope you got the "get a grip" remark. Grins.

[EnchantedSLN]

Something about this lyric gets me everytime. So much imagery that let's me go somewhere else in my mind:

Step into the velvet of the morning
Let yourself lay back within your dreams

Another one of my favorite simple but astute Stevie moments from this song: "Heartbreak of the moment is not endless."

[Sahara]

Don't forget about the "if Lindsey and I explode into a mass of timbers, at least the album will be done and thats all that matters" or words to that effect in the DR dvd.:laugh:

Bwahahhahaha! Brilliant stuff.

I'm with David on this -- the final few lines of Beauty and the Best always get me. And a lot of Desert Angel too.

But my all time favourite?

"But honestly, they'll probably be wheeling me out onstage in a wheelchair with rhinestones and raven feathers hot-glued to it. You know me -- it has to be fabulous...So, if you're in the Haight 10 years from now and a blur of feathers and rhinestones whizzes past you on a rocket-powered wheelchair and someone goes, 'What was that?' you can say, 'Oh, that's Stevie.' "

[Ghost_Tracker]

Also, another time she said, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." I. Was. Quite. Impressed.



Uhm, just to try to keep things "accurate" or whatever the word is, I believe she was quoting Shakespeare there.

(Or are you being sarcastic? I'm kinda clueless about when people are being sarcastic in here sometimes. :shrug: )

[Ghost_Tracker]

No, no....it's just that I believe that Stevie has been weakly misread, & that out of this misprision the steamily rubescent sexuality in her songs has been marginalized. I'd like to see critical analyses of that aspect of her art, to bring the erogenous zone to the center, as it were--similar to the way Camille Paglia strongly misread Emily Dickinson & restored Emily's vampirism, voyeurism, lesbianism & fetishism. Stevie is our modern-day DICKinson, I believe.
:shrug: :lol:


Uhmm - check out "Gate and Garden" sometime, if you haven't already . . . .
:shocked:

[BlackWidow]

Morning, noon and night.

Get a grip.
Richard B: YOU ARE BEDROOM MATERIAL BABY!!!:D

[Janis_no1]

THIS THREAD SEEMS TO BE ABOUT PEOPLES SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS......

and i really like the post on the first page about stevie in ten years in a wheelchair with a hot glue gunned hat!! lol

[paperflowers]

Let yourself LIE back within your dreams, Stephanie!! :thumbsup:

Personally, I think "step into the velvet of the morning" is a Stevie metaphor for masturbation.

Wake up in the morning
See your sunrise- loves- to go down
Lousy lovers- pick their prey



As for profound statement

You're sayin' I'm fragile, I try not to be
I search only for something I can't see

I have my own life and I am stronger than you know.....

[tynan88]

No.

Thanks David, you've polluted my mind. I can't ever take this song seriously anymore now.

Well I know you'd like to come away
But baby, you can't come

I will always and forever maintain those lines are a dig at Lindsey.

[jwd]

I'm not sure if this is the fiercest or wisest thing that Stevie has ever said, but I thought it was a very poignant statement that she made in the January 14th entry of her journal. Maybe things she has said or written come across as the fiercest and wisest things, depending on what's going on in our lives at the moment. I took this to heart today.


"So all that said, what we try to do on our visits, is to use our power to call back that charmed, childlike innocence~ and the answer to that, in my opinion~ is music. Music gives you the strength to keep moving. Music inspires you. Inspired people don’t stay down. "

[Mad4stevie]

"I've ridden with you within the wind
As I am riding away with you now
I'm beginning to understand your pain
And it forces me to withdraw
And now the tears dry on my face
And leave behind them only ashes
And the beauty of you was just a dream
Of memories, earthquakes, and flashes"

. . . Mistaken Love

[JazmenFlowers]

ooh missionary from Welcome to the Room...Sara

:D

no, seriously. I've got to say the best would be every word of Planets of the Universe; especially the vamp part.

[Sahara]

"I've ridden with you within the wind
As I am riding away with you now
I'm beginning to understand your pain
And it forces me to withdraw
And now the tears dry on my face
And leave behind them only ashes
And the beauty of you was just a dream
Of memories, earthquakes, and flashes"

Wow. Beautiful.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Well I know you'd like to come away
But baby, you can't come
I will always and forever maintain those lines are a dig at Lindsey.


OHHHhhhhhhhh!!! :shocked:
Just when I thought I "got" many of her lyrics! :p ;)

[Ghost_Tracker]

"I've ridden with you within the wind
As I am riding away with you now
I'm beginning to understand your pain
And it forces me to withdraw
And now the tears dry on my face
And leave behind them only ashes
And the beauty of you was just a dream
Of memories, earthquakes, and flashes"


I didn't even know about this one - YIKE she's good!
PO-et . . . LEGEND . . . PRIEST of SOME-thing!....
AND I THINK THAT THERE IS A CO-NEC-TION!!! :nod:

[Mad4stevie]

Mine is from "Mistaken Love".

A must listen!

[StevieRox2]

Mine's very simple:

"Dream's Unwind - Love's A State of Mind" - when I was going thru my divorce, that one just all of a sudden smacked me in the face - especially the "love's a state of mind" - and I thought "how VERY true and wise!"

[Sahara]

Mine is from "Mistaken Love".

A must listen!

I looked up the lyrics and thought so too.

MP3s, anyone? :rolleyes:

[JazmenFlowers]

I looked up the lyrics and thought so too.

MP3s, anyone? :rolleyes:
I'll post one when I get home. I think I have 5 or 6 different versions. it is a classic, must have.

[Rickypt]

Best thing she's said is "come down here and get a dog.....or a cat" on the Today Show last year.

[foxyluva]

Best thing she's said is "come down here and get a dog.....or a cat" on the Today Show last year.

:laugh: That is funny on so many levels :laugh:

[JazmenFlowers]

I'll post one when I get home. I think I have 5 or 6 different versions. it is a classic, must have.
my favorite of the versions I have
http://download.yousendit.com/80DBA6A84795A9F8

a more "polished" version
http://download.yousendit.com/6D86AA5119D8A94D

[catinthedark]

And now the tears dry on my face
And leave behind them only ashes


one of my favourite lines ever...

as for a favourite thing she has said not in song... i liked when she said "we are rock stars. we are not nice."

[David]

one of my favourite lines ever...

as for a favourite thing she has said not in song... i liked when she said "we are rock stars. we are not nice."
I love it when Stevie said, "Gabrielle, really ... go catch a fever" (Dec. 13, 1979)

[Ghost_Tracker]

I love it when Stevie said, "Gabrielle, really ... go catch a fever" (Dec. 13, 1979)


Did she really give somebody the finger??? What were the circumstances??? :eek: :shocked: :laugh:

[JazmenFlowers]

Did she really give somebody the finger??? What were the circumstances??? :eek: :shocked: :laugh:
I think it's a "tampered" photo.

[Sahara]

my favorite of the versions I have
http://download.yousendit.com/80DBA6A84795A9F8

a more "polished" version
http://download.yousendit.com/6D86AA5119D8A94D

Jason, this was beautiful!!

I could play the MP3 file but the M4A, was it? No idea. Could you tell me how to convert it?

Cheers. Stevie's piano demos are so hauntingly beautiful.

[JazmenFlowers]

Jason, this was beautiful!!

I could play the MP3 file but the M4A, was it? No idea. Could you tell me how to convert it?

Cheers. Stevie's piano demos are so hauntingly beautiful.
have you tried changing the extension? sometimes that works.

[Sahara]

have you tried changing the extension? sometimes that works.

No luck I'm afraid. :shrug: For all my computer knowledge I'm an awful dunce.

[cliffdweller]

I know this isn't wise or fierce, but I love it in the BTM when she says, "I knew I was going to have to quit doing drugs or I wouldn't be able to 'rock a little' anymore."

The unabashed cheesiness of punning her own album title like that is just priceless to me. That? is rich :cool:

I've always also loved this line from Belladonna:

"and the woman may be so awestruck
and the woman may truly care
but the woman is so tired....
so the woman disappears"

Chilling!

[Ghost_Tracker]

Hey HERE'S one! -


"Take on the situation, not the torment.
Now, you KNOW it's not as bad,
as it seems."



I've always felt that that was INCREDIBLY wise, and true. :)

[Ghost_Tracker]

ALL-righty so here's my all-time favorite! - - -

"In all your darkest hours . . .
did you ever give it back?"

[StreetAngel86]

Let yourself LIE back within your dreams, Stephanie!! :thumbsup:

Personally, I think "step into the velvet of the morning" is a Stevie metaphor for masturbation.

i am NEVER listening to that song EVER again :o



:D