Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
- All Quotes
-
If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.
-
That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.
-
The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.
-
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
-
Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
-
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
-
Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while.
-
Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.
-
When people just decide they're going to reconvene, there's no guarantee that they're going to have any of that chemistry. Sometimes people try to do that, and it's a struggle to try to recreate what once was.
-
That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
-
I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.
-
Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band.
-
They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.
-
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.
-
I'm not really concerned with the outer success.
-
Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.
-
I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.
-
You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.
-
I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.
-
The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.
-
But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
-
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
-
You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.
-
I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.