Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.
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If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.
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I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
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The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.
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The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
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You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.
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We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.
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Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
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One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.
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We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.
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I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.
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When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
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There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.
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If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.
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All of my style came from listening to records.
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.
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I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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I seldom look back.
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One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.
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I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really.