What's your favourite Stevie quotes?
 

Fun to know! I love everything she says 'cause she got a great sense of humour but here are my favourites (they are in different colors so you know):

"If you can't rock'n'roll, you're old!" -

"I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."
"By the time I was five, I was a little diva."

"I came here for a reason. I didn't come here to be a mother, I didn't come here to be a nun and I did not come here to be a cleaning lady. I came here to be a poet!"

"I'm behind the time but in my own fashion world."

It's like somewhere between my Texas accent and my Utah accent and my L.A accent and my San Francisco accent and my ENGLISH accent. It's like people would, you know, wonder where I was from, but when I was with them I was very english. So you take on that sort of english thing, you know, where you are "Very proper" (imitating the english accent) and everything is absolutley, you know, it's either perfect or it's not and that's how, you know, that's how you talk. I mean it's just, you know, "John I ring you up when I get home!" (imitating Christine's english accent). It's like you get that with my other funny accent's that I had to thrown in it's like, I sang ridicculous. People would say "I wonder where she's from? Maybe Mars?"

Stevie: "I'm a rock'n'roll singer! I'm NOT a model, I'm NOT an actress. I would never, ever, ever, EVER, EVER be able to model for Vogue...However (laughing)"

Interviewer: "Why not?"

Stevie: "Because I'm only 5 ft 1 inches tall! And because you know what? I don't care about being pretty that much. What I wanna do is, I wanna sing to you!"

Talking about when Fleetwood Mac would performe in the Bill Clinton inauguration 1993.

"We we're not going to miss performing for the president of United States, so pack up your tranquilizers we're going to Washington DC!"

I keep thinking that one of these days somebody's just gonna grab and hold in my skirt and pull me right off the stage and nobody ever does that, Nobody ever, ever, EVER tries to hurt me. And I think they know, first of all, that I'm a whole lot tougher that they think and that the platform boots that I wear would not be comfortable in their face and the tambourine that I'm usually carrying would not be comfortable around their neck. So they have a respect for my ability to fight for myself"

"Mick made a call on new years eve and the next day we met them and the next day we had dinner and the next day we went into rehersal and rehears for three wes and the next day we were in rehersal for recording the album and two weeks later we were recording and six months later we were famous"

Interviewer: "What do you think about Mick's book?"

Stevie: "I didn't read it...I lived it...I was there...If I read it, I would go through with a BIG read marking pensil, like a teacher, which is what I was trying to be, and I would be putting question marks (laughing and does a question mark in the air) and scratching out things and putting big LIE (writes a big lie in the air) and you know, circleing things "Could've been written better". It's like, that's the way I am when it comes to writing."

So, you're next, what's your favourites??? :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I like...
 

I like the one that Livia has as her signature about seeing Stevie in a wheelchair in Haight Ashbury flying by with feathers or something like that...Sorry, dont know the exact quote.

I remember all of those incredibly amusing quotes. I especially remember watching the interview containing the above quote and delighting in hearing the menacing, quiet tone of her voice when she says "I'm a whole lot tougher than they think". :laugh::xoxo: :nod: That whole quote is great.

-Matt

"What a writer wants to do is put stuff out there and make people mull it over in their minds until suddenly it's something that's way more important than turning on the stereo." (The Island Ear, August 22, 1994)

"Nobody is that cute."

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There are lots of others - but ones I use almost every day in regular conversation:

"Because they were made for my foot...they were made for ME. And that's what I love, I love people who are themselves and go right on being themselves, because you know what? In the long run, you're gonna be....with yourself."

"I never went into the studio in jeans and tennis shoes. Ever! I always dressed up and everyone would say, 'Well, look at her, she must have really thought she was going somewhere.' Because if you don't do that, then you'll become like an old shoe. And I will NEVER become an old shoe, to ANY of the men in my life."

"I'm only talking cuz I should really keep my mouth shut!"

"I will hand mail it to each one of you. I WILL! WE WILL! Kinda like Girl Scout cookies."

"You could be standin' in, what does that mean, you mgiht ask? It means of course, quicksand!"

"Off to my... whatever side that is... "
(US Festival, 1983)

"Tooooommmmmm, why are you micing the red dozen roses? They're all lit up and it's REALLY neat!", or whatever that quote is. Someone, audio, please. :laugh:

Well. It's not THAT FUNNY IS IT?!" (Stevie when the power went out during the Tusk rehearsal)

"Nobody even... knows what I'm talking about..."

"I can't stop; I can't go, "wait a minute, gotta find my contact lens!'"

Here you go...

Download Stevie Nicks - Stevie On Drugs (Tom and the Red Roses)

The best part is...

"Tommmmm...I know you're on the moon, but...."

My other favourites...

From Rolling Stone in 1980

In an hour or so, things are edgy again. New material isn't working out. Serious drinking is under way. Stevie Nicks comes over during a short break.

"That song!" She is talking about "Go Your Own Way," Buckingham's song.

"The harmony part is too high and I have to hurt and strain every time I sing it." She is upset, a little tipsy. She leans forward and whispers something to me in a voice that seems to silly to be serious.

"Now, I want you to know-that line about 'shacking up'? I never shacked up with anybody when I was with him! People will hear the song and think that! I was the one who broke up with him."

She smiles conspiratorially.

"All he wanted to do was fall asleep with that guitar."

And these two aren't really funny, but they always tug at my heart strings, much like her lyrics...

From Mick's Book...so take it with a grain of salt perhaps :shrug: but apparently it's actually from a BBC interview?

"I gave Lindsey up...he's a thing of my past. I hope he finds what he's searching for, and I hope he's happy, and I wish him well. And there's nothing left to say."

And this, much more full-circle quote from Mojo in 2003

“Now I just adore him,” says Nicks, with ravishing candour. “He is my love. My first love and my love for all time. But we can’t ever be together. He has a lovely wife, Kristen, who I really like, and they are expecting their third child. The way he is with his children just knocks me out. I look at him now and just go, Oh, Stevie, you made a mistake!”

She leans forward. “But when we go on-stage together we are able to experience our love affair again - and again and again! For two and a half hours, four times a week...There isn’t really anybody in my life - it wouldn’t be good for me now anyway, I’m always away. But when hard times come over the next 20 or 30 years, when people we love die, he’ll be the first person I’ll call. Knowing that now, I think he has been able to let go of all the nasty things that happened and realise that, like I said to him, Lindsey, you’ll always have me. I’m always a phone call away. So you get it all.”

Apparently I'm just a big un-shipper...don't think they're still together or anything, but I'm fascinated and captivated by their history and the ongoing emotion, etc, whatever...

Okay...I'm done now

She's always got something to say.

I can't get the quotes right now, but some of my favorites are when she said something like big, round ball of tuskness and when she said the pale shadow of the dragon boy was always in the background.

Also, that conversations quote where she said she liked cemeteries but Lindsey really liked them always made me laugh. I just don't know what it means. I mean, some people really do like cemeteries, like historians and genealogists, but I wouldn't take Lindsey for one of those people.

Michele

I have always loved cemeteries too. Michele, we probably both got our fascination for them because we were BIG fans of Dark Shadows.

To Molly Meldrum in 1986:
We were so busy Molly. And nobody has time to read Billboard or Cashbox when you're on the road.

To PM Magazine in 1979:
I'm not going out on some cloud for Fleetwood Mac or anybody else. If being a rock-n-roll star means being that, then I don't wanna be a rock-n-roll star and I don't wanna be in it anymore. And that's exactly where I am. If I want to go antique shopping, I am NOT gonna have someone following me!

Actually that one makes sense to me...especially back in the day. He seemed a little dark and twisty...

Oh, I don't like cemeteries.

Regarding Dark Shadows, I actually believe that watching that at such an early age shaped what I think of as attractive. I mean, Lindsey in the Slow Dancing video: :nod:. Really, really works. If I hadn't liked Jonathan Frid, I don't know if I would feel the same.

I was doing a Michael Jackson marathon this weekend and saw the Who Is It video. Ian Buchanan (Duke Lavery) was in it. He was gorgeous to me back then and why? 'Cause he's a guy I can imagine on a misty dock, in a black cloak. Sunken cheeks, withholding eyes, haunting secret. I'm so in.

Michele

I'm a total Stevie/Lindesy person, too. Such an incredible story, and we are lucky enough to see such a phenomenal glimpse of it.

Or about dressing up as a witch: "I didn't want to go as a hot dog or a box of kleenex."

Ok, kleenex may not be that evocative, but I just get this image of her dressed up in a hot dog costume and it really makes me laugh. Michele

Imagine her twirling around in that...

LOL!!!! :thumbsup: :D :D That one made me LMAO!!!!! Hahahaha, Stevie The Hotdog!!

when talking about Lindsey scorching their burner plate or whatever it was and she said he was always playing the guitar while she's in the kitchen trying to make Hamburger Helper different.

there are so many quotes that literally make me laugh out loud. she's a hoot!

Yeah, that's one of my favorite stories. She says then they had no skillet and no hamburger either.

Michele

My favorite Stevie dictum is:

"There were always weird things going on between us"
-- about her time in Fritz

Aha! I knew there was a part I was forgetting. Thanks. :cool:

"Life goes on..."

(when giving a promo radio interview for 'Tango' talking about Betty Ford)

One of my favs comes from the March 2005 interview with Jim Ladd before she went to Vegas where she says something like,

"Really, nobody wants to hear about how happy you are, people want to hear about your miserable times. ... I like my angst-ridden rock and roll miserableness, I love that! ... We're rockers, we are not nice! ... We can be blissed out when we're 75 and in Italy!"

Obviously that's not word for word what she said but I love how we get the general idea of what she's thinking even though there's like 5 different thoughts in what she's saying, she cracks me up! :lol:

Ooooh I LOVE this. I need to find the actual quote and then write it on my hand every day so I remember people do NOT, in fact, hate me for being a 90% angsty writer :)

(This is kind of a quote...not from an interview or anything)

One of the things I've laughed most about recently was rewatching the Scarlett Stand Back video and listening to Stevie's commentary...that whole video is hysterical, what with the horse trying to kill her repeatedly and all :lol:...at the end when they are in the saloon and the guy is being dragged out, she says real sad like "aww, they're taking him away from me" but then says real loud "but I was already mad at him so what did I care?!!!" Just the way she says it make me LOL

Regarding Christine:

"And I'm sure there were times when I'm flying around the stage in my gossamer chiffon where she had to think to herself, 'Wow, what's this? Fairy school?'"

I also LOVE that quote!! Here's a cool and fun photo I made with this quote in it, haha:

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7439633_n.jpg

Hope you like it and don't forget, she's NOT a witch!!!
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"I'm still pretty cute and I rock."

I think she's a witch. I believe she has sold her soul to Beelzebub in exchange for earthly riches.

During the scene where Lori runs out of the house she says something like "Where is my maid? And why are all these chickens here!"

And it cracks me up every time.

Ah well, I'm not that sure...:lol:
However thx for posting the pic it's really cool!!

Can someone refresh my memory on the "sitting alone on the bed" quote about Lindsey? What is the whole quote and where is it from? I'm trying to tell a friend about it, but my memory is shaky. Thanks!

Also could someone remind me what is the quote where Stevie says that Fall From Grace is about Lindsey? I know that it is from a recent radio interview. Thanks!

I love cemeteries too.... I've always wanted to go sit in one with my typewriter on my lap and start pounding away but I'm afraid someone will be mourning his dead aunt or something and shoot me a disgusted look.

haha all of her comments from the CV DVD were pretty funny. I can't remember the exact quote right now, but she said something about the horse running away with her or something that makes me crack up.

Also, I love how she always inserts "you know" into her long explanations of things. She's adorable. :)

Lindsey and I and our tragic, uptight way of doing things to each other is still the same in so many ways. In many, many ways, Lindsey and I are still the same people that we were when we met at 16 and 17. There’s a part of our relationship that remains unchanged. It doesn’t matter that he’s married with kids. It doesn’t matter what my life is. When we’re together we can still be incredibly teenage. And we still write about each other a lot. We’re still great sources of inspiration for each other. When we’re 90, whoever goes first, the other one will be sitting on a bed alone. We’ll never run out of stuff to write about. 2009

Here's another one in the same vein:

"That electric crazy attraction between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks never dies, never will die, never will go away," she said. "He's married, he's happy, he has three beautiful children that I love. You know, he's found a good, happy, calm, safe place — but who Lindsey and I are to each other will never change...It's over. It doesn't mean the great feeling isn't there, it must mean that ... you know, we're beauty and the beast. It means that the love is always there but we'll never be together, so that's even more romantic." 2009

Here's the 2009 radio interview quotes about FFG:

Angry song. Probably my angriest song ever. But, it has...it's angry like 'don't jump off that cliff, don't be an idiot.' But, at the same time it's like 'because I don't want you to be hurt.'

No, that song's about Lindsey. Oh yeah. That's after the Dance. I wrote that in 1998, 1998-99 that's right after the Dance.

[So, he still knows the buttons to push.]

Oh yeah, definitely. And he tries not to push them so much now because I really don't like it and I don't want to be angry with him now. But he knows how to get to me. But, I'm only saving him in that song. [Quotes song.]

But it basically says, you know as angry as I am at you, I'm really only trying to help you. So at the end when it comes to the end it basically turns the whole thing around. Almost like he does on Never Going Back Again. when he says you know, "I"m never going back again" and blah blah blah but the he says "but come around and see me again." So Fall From Grace is kinda like that.

LOVE all of these. Thank you!

Stevie's also said:

Here's another Fall From Grace mention radio interview. It's posted on nicksfix:

http://www.nicksfix.com/interview_chum_may6_2001.htm

MD: Tell us about from the new album "Trouble in Shangri-La," the song “Fall from Grace.” What’s that all about?

Stevie Nicks: “Fall from Grace,” I wrote on the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour. Because that’s a great place to write, when you’re on tour and everything’s going really well, it’s very exciting; it’s like a big date. You know, it’s like very romantic, very, and you know you’re traveling. And of course, when you’re in Fleetwood Mac it’s a very big deal, so you get the best of everything in Fleetwood Mac. When we go to my solo career, it’s a little cut down, it’s a little cut down.

MD: It’s the discount version?

Stevie Nicks: It’s a little discounted, you know. But the Fleetwood Mac thing is very big, so it’s a very fun place to write. And “Fall from Grace,” was really about um when, Lindsey and Mick and I go up on stage, and how, just how intense it is, you know. And how we do kinda feel like, you know, Queen Elisabeth, Prince Phillip, and Queen Edward, King Edward; oh man, he’s gonna kill me for Queen Edward. Um, it’s such a powerful thing, and when you get up there it’s just so magical and so strong. And so, somehow the poem for “Fall from Grace,” just came outta that.