110+ Stevie Nicks Quotes On Music, Growing Up And Mystic

Stevie Nicks is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known for being the lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. She is known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona, and poetic, symbolic lyrics. Nicks has released eight solo studio albums to date, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a member of Fleetwood Mac and once as a solo artist. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Stevie Nicks on love, life, music.

Top 10 Stevie Nicks Quotes

1. But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.
2. I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.
3. If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
4. You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
5. My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
6. Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.
7. Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
8. When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.
9. I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
10. I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

Stevie Nicks Image Quotes

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise. — Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks Short Quotes

• I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.
• I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
• If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
• Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.
• I've always been a Pretenders fan... I'm very excited about this.
• Rock and menopause do not mix.
• I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
• Klonopin is a horrible, dangerous drug.
• Thunder only happens when it's raining.
• You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.

Stevie Nicks Quotes About Love

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. — Stevie Nicks

I have no fear, I have only love — Stevie Nicks

I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans. — Stevie Nicks

Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you — Stevie Nicks

If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain? — Stevie Nicks

If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning. — Stevie Nicks

Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown. — Stevie Nicks

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. — Stevie Nicks

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love. — Stevie Nicks

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure. — Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks Quotes About Life

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. — Stevie Nicks

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change. — Stevie Nicks

And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life. — Stevie Nicks

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know. — Stevie Nicks

Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too — Stevie Nicks

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life. — Stevie Nicks

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time. — Stevie Nicks

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream — Stevie Nicks

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen. — Stevie Nicks

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting. — Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks Famous Quotes And Sayings

Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game. — Stevie Nicks

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise. — Stevie Nicks

I did try to come back and listen You never it..I didn't wish it But I did hear every answer ever question It's all about protection stil through the sunlight days I wait Track a ghost through the fog The sun is burning me And you come running out in the wind with me The ocean is your blanket. — Stevie Nicks

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do. — Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. — Stevie Nicks

Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.' — Stevie Nicks

I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it. — Stevie Nicks

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us. — Stevie Nicks

In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming. — Stevie Nicks

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees — Stevie Nicks

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. — Stevie Nicks

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. — Stevie Nicks

I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong? — Stevie Nicks

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. — Stevie Nicks

The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing. — Stevie Nicks

That is the saddest thing: He [Prince] always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose. — Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. [...] Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. — Stevie Nicks

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. — Stevie Nicks

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit. — Stevie Nicks

I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band. — Stevie Nicks

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time. — Stevie Nicks

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway". — Stevie Nicks

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice. — Stevie Nicks

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs. — Stevie Nicks

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on. — Stevie Nicks

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. — Stevie Nicks

In Fleetwood Mac I have a persona, I call myself the 'Spider Woman'. I try to imagine myself putting on a spider mask. I become very subdued and quieter, I don't move so fast., I'm in a state of suspended animation. — Stevie Nicks

I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying." — Stevie Nicks

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens. — Stevie Nicks

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. — Stevie Nicks

Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head. — Stevie Nicks

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands. — Stevie Nicks

Don't Listen To Her, Listen Through Her." Stevie Nicks — Stevie Nicks

We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter. — Stevie Nicks

Love is a word that some entertain. If you find it you have won the game. — Stevie Nicks

I saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do. — Stevie Nicks

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. — Stevie Nicks

I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress. — Stevie Nicks

Now here I go again/I see the crystal visions. I keep my visions to myself. — Stevie Nicks

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for. — Stevie Nicks

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends. — Stevie Nicks

By the time I was five, I was a little diva. — Stevie Nicks

When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great. — Stevie Nicks

All I ever wanted Was to know that you were dreaming. — Stevie Nicks

I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie." — Stevie Nicks

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. — Stevie Nicks

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged. — Stevie Nicks

I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black. — Stevie Nicks

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. — Stevie Nicks

She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless All your life you've never seen a woman Taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win? — Stevie Nicks

I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me. — Stevie Nicks

It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic. — Stevie Nicks

And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do. — Stevie Nicks

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect. — Stevie Nicks

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. — Stevie Nicks

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me. — Stevie Nicks

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time. — Stevie Nicks

Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles. — Stevie Nicks

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five. — Stevie Nicks

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies. — Stevie Nicks

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different. — Stevie Nicks

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too. — Stevie Nicks

I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it. — Stevie Nicks

I don't really like to be filmed. — Stevie Nicks

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you. — Stevie Nicks

I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace. — Stevie Nicks

I would have found something because I love to entertain people. I had the option to take the rest of the year off. But I said the songs on my last solo album, '24 Karat Gold,' mean so much to me. I need to get out there and sing them. — Stevie Nicks

Stop dragging my heart around. — Stevie Nicks

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery. — Stevie Nicks

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write — Stevie Nicks

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique. — Stevie Nicks

Life Lessons by Stevie Nicks

1. Stevie Nicks has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as she has achieved great success in the music industry despite facing many obstacles.
2. Her music has been a source of inspiration for many, as her lyrics often reflect her own life experiences and struggles.
3. She has also shown that it is possible to remain true to yourself and your artistry, even when faced with pressure to conform to industry standards.