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American - Musician Born: May 26, 1948American - Musician - Born: 5/26/1948
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
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
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SingThe Only ThingGuitar
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.Stevie Nicks
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DivaBy The Time
Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.Stevie Nicks
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Be HappyPeople SayFeeling Alone
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
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BandReasonCareer
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. - Stevie Nicks
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.Stevie Nicks
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ChangesWriterLover
It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.Stevie Nicks
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BandBreakBreak Up
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
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SpecificNightsForget
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
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ConsciousMusicianRaising
If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.Stevie Nicks
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AngryBeautiful GirlBotox
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
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LongingMakeupFor The Day
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
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MikePreferredHolding On
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
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MenopauseMixSucks
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
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Trying HardFleetwood MacTalked
Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.Stevie Nicks
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Falling In LoveHeartache
I don't really like to be filmed.Stevie Nicks
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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
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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
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TerrifiedFearlessPretty
I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.Stevie Nicks
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PersonallyJeansMysterious
My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.Stevie Nicks
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ChickGenerationHusband
I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.Stevie Nicks
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DesignersSlickAnyone Else
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
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Right ChoiceInterviewsToured
Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.Stevie Nicks
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Involved
If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.Stevie Nicks
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StarHaving ChildrenRock Stars
If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.Stevie Nicks
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Single DayEvery Single DayNaked
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. - Stevie Nicks
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.Stevie Nicks
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RatCompatible
But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.Stevie Nicks
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Take CareBabyAnother Woman
I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.Stevie Nicks
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StupidSinger
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
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HandleFat
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.Stevie Nicks
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GirlfriendCornerPossibility
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
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Appropriate
Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.Stevie Nicks
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InstilledTake Care
A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.Stevie Nicks
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If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?Stevie Nicks
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MagicalFrightKey
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
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IdeaReasonPay
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.Stevie Nicks
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Only TimeHoursOpened
I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.Stevie Nicks
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MonthsHatedBotox
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
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ChrisPermissionOne Day
I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.Stevie Nicks
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Different LifeStrangeMusicians
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
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Poet
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.Stevie Nicks
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MacFleetwoodFleetwood Mac
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar. - Stevie Nicks
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.Stevie Nicks
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Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.Stevie Nicks
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