Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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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 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 didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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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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It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.
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A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
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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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'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.
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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.
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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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'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well.
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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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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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I seldom look back.
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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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I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.
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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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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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I'm very fortunate.
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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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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Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.
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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.