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" All of my style came from listening to records. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Came
Listening
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" Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me. "
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" I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. "
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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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" 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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" Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. "
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" You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family. "
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" The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role. "
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" I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. "
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" Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important. "
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" My personal life is fairly barren. "
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" You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself. "
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" I'm very fortunate. "
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" For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that. "
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" I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day. "
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" I'm not ashamed of my personal life. "
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" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "
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Phoenix
Very
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" The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history. "
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" If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work. "
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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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Way
" I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is. "
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" When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac. "
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World
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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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" There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made. "
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Bright
You
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