Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist.
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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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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All of my style came from listening to records.
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If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.
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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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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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My personal life is fairly barren.
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When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
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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 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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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 seldom look back.
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There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.
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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.