Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

  

  Vin Scully
  • Knee
  • Day-to-day
  • Andre

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • German

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • American
  • Beginning

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Want
  • Married
  • Get Married

• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Research
  • Senses

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Way

• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Family
  • Society
  • Community

• One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Up
  • Music
  • Experience

• As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Worry

• Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Small

• I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

  

  David Hockney
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Lyrics