Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
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I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.
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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
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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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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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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 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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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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This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
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Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.'
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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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I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.
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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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I seldom look back.
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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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I'm very fortunate.
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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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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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I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time.
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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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After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
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My personal life is fairly barren.