Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All of my style came from listening to records.
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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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Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.
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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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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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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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If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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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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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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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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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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I seldom look back.
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I'm very fortunate.
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I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time.