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

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

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."

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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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.
Well maybe that part came from an adjoining or unrelated page in her journal. :shrug: :lol:

Saw your photo on other thread..YOU ARE HOT!!!!:xoxo:

Awww. Thank you! That's very nice of you to say.

Left a question for you on ASK A LEDGIE Thread.....

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

Morning, noon and night.

Get a grip.

: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.

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

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.' "

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: )

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

Richard B: YOU ARE BEDROOM MATERIAL BABY!!!:D

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

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.....

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

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. "

"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

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.

Wow. Beautiful.

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

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:

Mine is from "Mistaken Love".

A must listen!

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!"

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.