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" 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it. "

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" If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole. "

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" When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place. "

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" As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it. "

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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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" You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups. "

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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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" 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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" There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band. "

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" If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up. "

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" That really was a lot of the appeal of 'Rumours.' The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other. It was also appealing because we were rising to the occasion to follow our destiny. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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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" For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that. "

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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 remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all. "

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" I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. "

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