Littered throughout his songs, Prince often throws in some pretty deep thoughts.If you were approached by someone writing a book on philosophical quotes and proverbs and asked by them to provide examples of one liners from Prince's career, what would U include?




All that glitters ain't gold (Gold)

JimmyNothing said:

"All that glitters aint' gold", ain't nuthin but a old cliche!Don't give him too much credit.

to be honest with you, I think most of Prince's attempts to thoughtful or metaphorical,or cryptic, once you try to decode their "meaning", they're rather rubbish.I remember an article where a Prince bandmember anonomously said that the way Prince speaks, "Is rather annoying, actually."

Dig this: "Do you dream straight up/or do you dream in w's?"

SOMEBODY explain what the duck this is suppose to mean? The only thing I can think of is "do you get a lot of erections during the night, or do you just experience one long erection? Would that constitute a "Gold Experience"?


[color=blue:e8756fbaac:7e4a0395a4:5b4584b27a]During your sleep cycle brainwaves are sent out from your brain and can be traced using a polysomnogram. A polysomnogram is a test of sleep cycles and stages through the use of continuous recordings of brain waves (EEG), electrical activity of muscles, eye movement (electrooculogram), respiratory rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rhythm and direct observation of the person during sleep.

There are 2 states of sleep: non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep is associated with dreaming and generalized muscleparalysis sparing the eye muscles and diaphragm. NREM sleep has 4 stages distinguishable by EEG waves. REM sleep alternates with NREM sleep approximately every 90 minutes. A person with normal sleep usually has 4 to 5 cycles of REM and NREM sleep during a night.

The results of the polysomnogram often look like the results of a seismograph with consistant straight lines representing undisturbed sleep and fluctuations in the lines representing disturbed sleep. Presumably, when a person is feeling a crisis of conscience, the results of a polysomnogram would reflect a disturbance that would fluctate up and down like a 'w' instead of 'straight up' like a flat line result would.


What is a "Gold Experience", anyways? Is it different than a "Mauve experience", or a "Burnt Sienna Experience?"

I think I experienced a "Plaid Experience"once, when I dreamed "straight up"! Decode that.

...Prince is NOT zen. "Prince-speak" is it's own world,baby!