Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
-
Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
-
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
-
Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
-
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
-
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
-
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
-
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
-
When liberty returns, I will return.
-
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
-
Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
-
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
-
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
-
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
-
Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
-
Chemistry between people is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.
-
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
-
You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
