Becky Stark Quotes

Becky Stark is an artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer from Los Angeles, California. She is the voice of the band Lavender Diamond. In an article about Stark in The New York Times called "North American Songbird," Zoe Wolf wrote "Picture Lucille Ball and Tinkerbell engaged in a duet and you have an apt metaphor for the neo-folk singer Becky Stark, who suggests an impish fairy from a faraway land. " Wikipedia  

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Famous Becky Stark Quotes

“The whole world was gathered
At the shore of the earth
Holding hands and celebrating
The little girl’s birth.”

Hymn composed by Stark, quoted in "North American Songbird" by Zoë Wolff, in The New York Times (3 June 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/fashion/03nite.html?_r=1&ref=fashion

“Open your heart.
Tear it apart.”

Open Your Heart
Imagine Our Love (2007)

“Emptiness is a conductor
A conductor of heat
A conductor of Anything.”

Emptiness Is A Conductor
Artifacts Of The Winged (2003)

“Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.”

As quoted in Lavender Diamond seeks world peace, by Jake Coyle in USA Today (27 April 2007)

Becky Stark Quotes

“When you wake for certain
Will you still be hurting?”

When You Wake For Certain
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: On a winter's day
we were children
all the while ringing
one by one All though the day
All through the night time And we fell so hard,
looking out of the window
And we fell so far, into the night When you wake for certain
Will you still be hurting?

“Begin the age of love you know about!”

You Broke My Heart, One Day Like Rain video (2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbuzXRGXCpY - live performance Siren Festival (2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpgz-roS08w
Cavalry of Light (2005)
Context: Why do I hear what I can't see?
Why do I fear what I can be?
I feel the field of battle within my life! I hear the calvalry of light!
I see the sound of endless sight!
I feel the field of battle within my life! It was a life that had no end
A time of love with you, my friend
Begin the age of love you know about!

“I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.”

Garden Rose
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.

“Why do I hear what I can't see?
Why do I fear what I can be?
I feel the field of battle within my life! I hear the calvalry of light!”

You Broke My Heart, One Day Like Rain video (2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbuzXRGXCpY - live performance Siren Festival (2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpgz-roS08w
Cavalry of Light (2005)
Context: Why do I hear what I can't see?
Why do I fear what I can be?
I feel the field of battle within my life! I hear the calvalry of light!
I see the sound of endless sight!
I feel the field of battle within my life! It was a life that had no end
A time of love with you, my friend
Begin the age of love you know about!

“We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.”

As quoted in Lavender Diamond seeks world peace, by Jake Coyle in USA Today (27 April 2007) http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2007-04-27-3719120128_x.htm

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