Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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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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The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
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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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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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I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
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I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.
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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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We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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I'm very fortunate.
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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 didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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I seldom look back.
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All of my style came from listening to records.