Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

• You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

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• Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I – we’ve been working together since I was 17.

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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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• 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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• When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it’s more like movie making.

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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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• Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

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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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• They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

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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 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

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• That’s the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

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• That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

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• That’s basically what’s going on now: Everything is propaganda.

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• Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn’t leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

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• It’s really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

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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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• I’m also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there’s some kind of good karma right now.

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• I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

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• I just find things that work and embellish them.

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Lindsey Buckingham (29)

Birth:	3rd November, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Producer, Singer

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