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It\u2019s hard to know where to start when looking at the legacy of Stevie Nicks<\/a>. There\u2019s the musical side, of course, the side that\u2019s an easier sell, showcasing all sides to her artistic beauty like neatly-placed tea lights in dimly-lit halls of endless discovery. Then there\u2019s the personal side, the parts of her story that prove her resilience and defiance in the face of anything that came her way. And then there\u2019s the part in the middle, where the two collide, culminating in stories that paint a picture of a true warrior with a genius mind.<\/p>\n \u201cShe sees all the romance and the drama in the world and she celebrates it,\u201d Harry Styles said during Nicks\u2019 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. \u201cShe will stand on stage introducing a song, telling you how she wrote them\u2014honestly\u2014like you\u2019re the only other person in the world.\u201d But this is also the only kind of authenticity that makes you truly feel that way, too, like it\u2019s only you her words are for, even though it\u2019s her world, and we\u2019re all just listening.<\/p>\n Suppose that\u2019s also because, when looking at ways to describe Nicks\u2019 legacy, the only natural direction is to go personal. The facts of Nicks\u2019 story fall away when we look at the many times she\u2019s made us feel, or the countless times she\u2019s let us into the pieces of her soul others would keep hidden, like diary entries written for us to discover and relate to, even though we\u2019ll likely never go through the same things or come out the other end the way she did, ready for another fight, another of many.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are a friend, and the words say in so many ways: I understand you and you are not alone. And that is true Stevie,\u201d Styles said, capturing all the moments Nicks has ever pulled us in and made us feel alive with the threads of her story, the place where the music stops being just music and starts becoming worlds, worlds that reach deep within, painting us with the colours of Nicks\u2019 own love, joy, sadness, and sorrow like they\u2019ve always been our own.<\/p>\n There are many songs that capture this feeling, too. Many songs that show off Nicks\u2019 inexplicable ability to pour her heart and soul into the art form as if they\u2019re living and breathing pages of her own diary, filled with all the cadences of her own mannerisms in ways only the viscera of music could communicate. There are countless that show all the edges of her scorn just as much as her happiness, telling the story of her life through brief musical moments where, for that moment, that\u2019s all that exists.<\/p>\n According to Nicks, when getting to know her journey, there\u2019s no use in looking further than six songs in her catalogue, as she explained during a radio interview in 2000<\/a>: \u201cThe lines from all the songs from, you know, \u2018Sara\u2019 and \u2018Dreams\u2019 and \u2018Rhiannon\u2019 and \u2018Gold Dust Woman\u2019 and \u2018Stand Back\u2019 and \u2018Edge\u2019. They\u2019re all there. They\u2019re all just like, lilting kind of, through the experiences of my life. And if you know the words to the songs, you\u2019d be, you\u2019d go \u2018Wow! I really understand now. I really understand now.’\u201d<\/p>\n