Becky Stark

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

Rebecca Ann "Becky" Stark (born 1976) is an American artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer who the founded the band Lavender Diamond.

Quotes

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

I hear the cavalry of light,
I see the sound of endless sight,
I feel the field of battle, within my life…

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

Artifacts Of The Winged (2003)

• Emptiness is a conductor
  A conductor of heat
  A conductor of Anything.
  • Emptiness Is A Conductor

Cavalry of Light (2005)

• 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!

  • You Broke My Heart, One Day Like Rain video (2007) - live performance Siren Festival (2007)

• In sorrow there is no rhyme.

  Dream the kind of a life that you will find
  The kind of love that lasts forever.
  Dream the kind of a life that you will find
  The kind of love that lasts forever.

  In heaven there is no time.

  • In Heaven There Is No Heat

Imagine Our Love (2007)

• 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.

  • Garden Rose

• Open your heart.
  Tear it apart.
  • Open Your Heart

• Well then you thought that the end was in sight
  And then you thought there was nothing to fight
  But you had opened your heart with your mind
  Oooh here comes one.
  • Here Comes One

• 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?

  • When You Wake For Certain

Quotes about Stark

• 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. Her eyes are wide, and her madcap stories full of exclamation points. She seems perpetually atwitter, at once ditzy and all knowing.
  She’s the voice and the creative force behind the Los Angeles-based band Lavender Diamond, which just released its quixotic debut album, “Imagine Our Love.”
  • Zoë Wolff, in North American Songbird in The New York Times (3 June 2007)

External links

• Lavender Diamond (official site)
• Profile at IMDb
• Hen House Studio interview (2003)
• Stark interviewed for cover article in Arthur magazine
• New Yorker arrticle (12 March 2007)
• Associated Press interview in USA Today (27 April 2007)
• Becky Stark and Miranda July interview each other for Anthem magazine (4 May 2007)
• Article on Becky Stark in New York Times (3 June 2007)