Enigmatic Stevie Quotes
 

I'm not a very good houseguest. I just don't like to go to other people's houses. I like people to come to my house. Probably because that's the way I was raised. My mother never really let me go & stay at other people's houses. She would allow me to have all my friends to my house, but she would not allow me to go away. And this comes from something that she's never told me about her own childhood. And some day she will tell me, & it won't be a nice story. But there's something about her, the way she raised me, that said You can have anybody you want, as late as you want, at our house. But you cannot stay with them.

-- 1989 British TV interview

".. and so when the whole hurricane thing happened, it seemed to me almost like Landslide you know it it it sorta moved up through the years and became something that really could actually be.. if i had written this, i could have written this about everything thats gone on in the last month and a half.." ;)

-- 2005 Today Show Interview

Huh- guess I shouldn't bother inviting her over for Halloween then. ;)

She had no problem a few years ago when she came and stayed with me for a few weeks. :shrug:

I have this interview on DVD. Its really great......

This is one of my favorite WTF moments from the "Ask Stevie" section of the Nicksfix.

"Why is Doing the Best I Can subtitled 'Escape from Berlin?'"

Stevie's answer:

"The musical part of the song is kind of scary and it reminded me of having to escape from somewhere."

That is bizarre, I'd never heard/read that. Of course I was thinking "my house was opposite. No one could really come to my house, ever." But besides that, it's still bizarre.

Aside from that, I think most things Stevie says are bizarre. Not necessarily in themselves, although that can happen.
The sheer...Candid Randomness is bizarre.
The lies/refabrications/evasions are bizarre, yet rich and varied. As are the revealed truths. And you never know which it is. I think they are impenatrably intertwined. It's a rich tapestry of lies and truths. Golden. Lovely.

The rote repititions are even bizarre.
"So, I went down to sly stones fabulous studio...it had a whole spiral staircase, and was just...it was really fabulous...." - - - "So then Prince came over and wrote the synth part, and I never saw him again!" :rolleyes:
*YEAH, WE KNOW! :laugh: * And goodness knows half of those could be fabrications, too! Soooo Sweeeeet!
Shyeah.
The thing is, I can totally imagine how that happens/happened. In the real way, nothing Stevie says is bizarre to me at all. Even when it's bad.

I can always see how, objectively, it would be bizarre. But to me it makes sense. Plus, I'm not looking for especially literal things in Stevie's songs.
I do look for the literal emotional meanings, and I believe that is always very, or at least fairly, easily discernable.
I enjoy the game, insofar as I play it, and just take everything I hear as a part of a rich tapestry, and then try to discern any meanings which may be repeating patterns. No big. A bunch I take with grains of salt, because I know how that is. I say all kinds of random things all the time. They could mean anything at any moment. :shrug: I just take Stevie the same way. No one could possibly think or feel the same things all the time. That's absurd! And predictable! :nod: It just seems natural to me that sometimes Stevie would be totally brill, and sometimes she'd be TOOOOTALLY lame. It all works out.
Sooo...this convo is close to moot for me, though I love reading all the bizarre things Stevie has said. I love it like chips and salsa. Salsa Fresca, that is. :lol:

God, I would do terrible things to hear this interview. Sesly. You know, my birthday is coming up in .... 9 months.... :p :D

You mean our birthday!!!


It has this interview on it, then theres another about OSOTM in England and theres cool footage of her twirling in a room with red dress and big sleeves that ive never seen before.

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stevie, Lori, and Sharon singing, Doing the Best that I can with Stevie on Piano..............SO AWESOME!

Yes, ours. Why do you torment me? :laugh:
sooo...sendy senderson??? :D

I can't copy DVD's, but I would be willing to send this to someone to torrent it. She tells the interviewer that she reminds her a lot of Christine. Its great.

Yes! And there's another snippet on the tape done during Behind The Mask press stuff in Europe, & they show footage from some outdoor show in Europe & they're playing Everywhere!

These shows that the band tapes just don't show up fast enough for me. You have to wait years & years for some fan to grab it.

lol! Well, you know, she could have called it "I'm Doing The Best I Can (Escape Via Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad)"

This is my all-time favorite "can I have some of that?" quote -

"I read the name of it in a . . . just a . . . novel;
realized it, thought, 'that's a really beautiful name;'
'bout . . . ten minutes later, sat down, wrote, 'Rhiannon!'
We think . . . she was a goddess . . . Queen . . .
and that her memory became the myth . . . .
I definitely feel that there's a presence! . . . ."
[intro to "Rhiannon" starts.]

Yeah uhmmm - yeah, OKAY! :) :rolleyes: :shrug:

( actually I think she did this intentionally to encourage her
"mystical" image but - yike!? Can I have some TOO??? :D )

Who really talks like this in real life?? Man, I haven't been exposed to enough "creative" people I guess. :laugh:

I've always heard it a little differently.

"I read the name of it in a, in a, just a novel. I really liked it, thought 'that's a really beautiful name.' Sat down -- (makes pencil scratching sound) -- 'bout ten minutes later wrote 'Rhiannon.'
We think that she was in fact queen, and that her memory became the myth.
I definitely feel that there's a presence...."

And then the rest is obscured by the music. It sounds like "in this song."

"I always wanted to be a witch because I thought that being a witch was the absolute most fun thing you could be on Halloween and I didn't want to go as a hot dog or a box of kleenex."

Pffft.

I'm so going as a hot dog this year.

very interesting stories. :thumbsup:

OMG. This is completely an "I am so goddamned stoned on this killer Maui Wowie and I can't string together a complete sentence, and this amazing killler Peruvian Flake came in from this really creepy guy yesterday so I am also really wired and it is so AWESOME and I remember reading this book, and it was about a witch and there was this horse and a bunch of birds and OMIGOD it was just toooo much and, Chris pass me that pipe, and I remember thinking it was this really beautiful name and would sound fantastic over an A minor chord and..." moment.

She was totally, irredeemably, fantastically f*ucked up on really expensive 70's drugs, folks. That's ALL. :laugh:

hence "Escape" in the title.....

[QUOTE=Ghost_Tracker]This is my all-time favorite "can I have some of that?" quote -

"I read the name of it in a . . . just a . . . novel;
realized it, thought, 'that's a really beautiful name;'
'bout . . . ten minutes later, sat down, wrote, 'Rhiannon!'
We think . . . she was a goddess . . . Queen . . .
and that her memory became the myth . . . .
I definitely feel that there's a presence! . . . ."
[intro to "Rhiannon" starts.]


I never really understood the part about her memory becoming the myth....maybe I'm looking beyond it, somehow, but I don't get that

[QUOTE=Raeven Skye]
I think maybe she was saying that the people's "collective
memory" of the character grew over time into a bigger and bigger
myth. And to borrow from the bus driver character on "Simpsons,"
she felt that that was just AWESOME. She also felt at that moment,
I think, that those CLOUDS, are AWESOME. This CHAIR, is AWESOME!
This MICROPHONE, is AWESOME! :rolleyes: :nod:
Really, though, I think mostly she was trying to start building her
"mythical, gypsy" image.
Isn't she AWESOME!??? :laugh:

[QUOTE=Ghost_Tracker][QUOTE=Raeven Skye]


I think maybe she was saying that the people's "collective
memory" of the character grew over time into a bigger and bigger
myth.



ok...so she's maybe talking about the memory OF her, not her own memory....duh!

I agree, I remember reading that and thinking, "Huh?". Very vague, I'm sure there is more to it.

"There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic....it's only those of us that choose to accept it, that really understand it. It's there for everyone. That's the only thing that I feel that I am able to give to people and that's why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic...not mine, but theirs. "

Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979

That's just about my favorite Stevie Nicks interview of all time. Jim Ladd deserves the honorific "auteur" for creating it.

That would be great, Sharon. We U.S.ers have all these European interviews on tape, but we don't know the names of these shows or their interviewers. I remember one was called Rapido. Another one was French & had no show name. There were numerous clips from England. We need you Europeans to ID these.

:thumbsup: And you my dear, are a fabulous writer! If this is a mere hobby for you, you should consider making it more...

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OMG could somebody PLEASE send me this DVD or someone torrent it??!! Please PM me.. someone....please??!! :blob2:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Sober, my ass!

My favorite quote of all time from Stevie. Enigmatic, stupid, and shockingly juvenile all at one time.

But I'm not one of those people, like Jackson Browne, who went up to the Diablo Canyon nuclear protest. I said to him, "But they could have broken your fingers-your beautiful fingers that write all those beautiful songs. Are you crazy? We need you to write songs. We don't need you to be in jail."

And this one has always stayed with me just for it's sheer silliness:

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

I love this one - I couldn't stop laughing. Love me some La Nicks.

I get every single thing posted in this thread. I completely get what she is saying and think the statements are lucid. I think I need some lithium :laugh:

I may join you. My head is hurting SO bad, a lobotomy is my next option - just relieve the tension, the pressure...arghhh

WE NEED COCKTAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:blob2: :blob1: :blob2: :blob1: :D :xoxo: :angel:

I wanna play!

hell, I need a klonopin or darvocet, but I'm out. :(

- although an adult beverage isn't totally out of the question

I have beewn soooooo good with my eating and going to the gym - so, I am thinking happy hour in three hours!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE