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

“documentary Sound City was released in 2013, some fans commented that “You Can’t Fix This” had to be the best, most stirring, most emotionally acute song Stevie Nicks had written in thirty years.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“For What It’s Worth”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Rock and Roll” and the symphonic “Landslide”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Chautauqua Road,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“nicksfix.com”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Trouble in Shangri-La.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Lindsey Buckingham was persuaded to add guitar to “I Miss You,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Fall from Grace” was another collaboration with John Shanks, and one of Stevie’s fiercest expressions of her will. A furious lyric paired to an incendiary guitar track, “Fall from Grace” was written in a Nashville hotel suite at the end of The Dance Tour,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Planets of the Universe,” which was written during the 1976 Rumours sessions, when Stevie first realized that she would leave her relationship with Lindsey. “Planets” was a complex song about vengeful feelings of being wronged. “You’ll never rule again / The way you ruled me.” (The accompanying guitar lick echoed Lindsey’s distinctive style.) “Planets” was also about a woman’s resignation to a different romantic existence: “Yes, I will live alone.” The original version had some especially spiteful lyrics. An angry verse would be removed by Stevie at the last minute before release, after she decided the song as it stood would be too hurtful”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Too Far from Texas” as a duet between Stevie and Natalie Maines, the spitfire singer from the Dixie Chicks. Then they got most of the Heartbreakers to play on the track, with Steve Ferrone on drums and Sheryl on bass guitar.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“churning, Beatles-influenced song about Tom Petty telling her to pull herself together and write her own stuff. Stevie put her words on a demo track by other writers and Sheryl pulled it together in a rocking arrangement.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“That Made Me Stronger,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Reconsider Me”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Enchanted”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“The Dance”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Bekka Bramlett”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Blue Denim”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Sara Fleetwood,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Rose Garden”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Just Like a Woman,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“reggae version of “I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes),” tacitly dedicated to Lindsey Buckingham,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Talk to Me” would become one of Stevie’s most popular, and”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Tom Petty showed up for two shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and sang “I Will Run to You” with Stevie.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Tom Petty’s song “I Will Run to You” with the Heartbreakers at the Hit Factory on the West Side.”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“Enchanted,” Stevie’s funny piece of cheerleader rock, was done by her touring band at the Record Plant in Manhattan. She”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

“If Anyone Falls in Love,”
― Stephen Davis, Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks