Gold Dust Woman Quotes

“Stevie thought that “Silver Springs” would be her dominant song on the new album; it couldn’t fail. The only problem was that Lindsey hated the song. He said it was too much in his face, and he gave Stevie a very hard time about working on the song in the studio. To Lindsey Buckingham, “Silver Springs” was not a prophesy. It was a curse.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“convey musically in her songs. Nobody else had this. As for Lindsey, he was angry about everything. He blamed Fleetwood Mac and the pressures of being in the band for the breakup with Stevie. He told his girlfriend Carol he didn’t like Stevie, but he was still in love with her. Even decades later, he confessed to an interviewer: “I was devastated when she took off.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“In December 1974 Fleetwood Mac was a band on the run, a band in exile, a band in serious trouble.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Florence Welch—acknowledged Stevie as a major influence on their careers, and Stevie allowed that this was flattering. A”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“One night, Stevie asked Jane when she met Tom. She replied, “Ah met him at the edge of seventeen.” Stevie, puzzled, said, “Did you say the ‘edge’ of seventeen?”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Stevie’s epic “Fireflies”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Years later, after Henley had spoken publicly about this pregnancy, Stevie gave an interview to Billboard during which she was asked about this in reference to one of her songs. She replied, “Had I married Don and had that baby, and had she been a girl, I would have named her Sara. But there was another woman in my life then named Sara; so it’s accurate, but not the entirety of it.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“At some point that year Stevie Nicks became pregnant by Don Henley.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Nobody heard a hit record in “Rhiannon,” “I Don’t Want To Know,” and “So Afraid.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“So from Janis I learned that to make it as a female musician in a man’s world is going to be tough, and you need to keep your head held high. From Jimi, I learned flamboyance, grace, and humility.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“I’ve narrowed it down to nobody,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“She told her close friend, the beautiful, ultrafeminine former model Sara Recor, that she didn’t think she would ever fully trust a man after what she’d been through with Lindsey, who now seemed so against her all the time.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“(“Dreams” would become Fleetwood Mac’s only ever #1 single release. Stevie later said that “Dreams” was “totally related” to a song by the Spinners, but couldn’t remember which one. Observers have suggested “I’ll Be Around” as a possible model.) *”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“During an early break from the road in Buffalo, New York, Stevie and Chris were shopping for vintage clothes in a thrift store when Stevie came across an antique black silk top hat, the kind a gentleman once wore to the opera. She tried it on and decided it gave her a dramatic, even operatic look. Within months it would become her trademark.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“I loved him before he was a millionaire. We were two kids out of Menlo-Atherton High School. I loved him for all the right reasons.” And, to an interviewer: “We did have a great relationship at first.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“The founder of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones (born Lewis Brian Hopkin-Jones), had Welsh blood. David Bowie’s real name was David Jones. Ray Davies. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page both had Welsh ancestors, and even retreated to Wales to write music for Led Zeppelin. “Bron-Yr-Aur.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Most of the other early rockers were Welsh, too: Jerry Lee Lewis from Ferriday, Louisiana; Carl Perkins and the Everly Brothers from Tennessee; Conway Twitty (born Harold Jenkins) from Arkansas. Same with Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm. Even Johnny Cash and a lot of the country and western stars: Loretta Lynn. Buck Owens. Kitty Wells. Hank Williams.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“In the mid-fifties, Welsh-descended musicians invented rock & roll music in America’s Mid-South. The Welsh name Elvis means what it sounds like—elfin, impish, otherworldly. And Presley is another way to spell Preseli, the Welsh mountains that provided the Druidical “sarsen stones” of Stonehenge.”
― Steven Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks