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" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Songs
Judge
Myself
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" Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. "
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Learn
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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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Work
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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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Soap
Opera
Level
" 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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Long
" 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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Stuff
Thought
Think
" Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons. "
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I Wish
Want
Always
" There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap. "
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Yourself
Up
Trap
" 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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Like
Me
Need
" I always made the joke that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put 'Tusk' on and listened to it in their boardroom as a follow-up to 'Rumours.' "
Lindsey Buckingham
First
Always
Joke
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
Financial
Successful
" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "
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Phoenix
Very
Well
" I seldom look back. "
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Back
Seldom
Look
" I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is. "
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Down
Break
Trying
" I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Research
Feel
Doing
" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "
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First
Fender
Playing
" That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda. "
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Going
Now
Everything
" I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that. "
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Her
Every Day
Feelings
" One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time. "
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Everyone
Same
Say
" Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.' "
Lindsey Buckingham
Band
Me
Myself
" I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked. "
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Happy
Myself
Mac
" I'm not ashamed of my personal life. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Personal Life
Personal
Ashamed
" The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.' "
Lindsey Buckingham
Band
Thought
Rest
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Working Together
Together
Love
" 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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Painting
Beginning
Band
" When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear. "
Lindsey Buckingham
School
College
Guitar
" When people just decide they're going to reconvene, there's no guarantee that they're going to have any of that chemistry. Sometimes people try to do that, and it's a struggle to try to recreate what once was. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Chemistry
People
Sometimes
" All of my style came from listening to records. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Came
Listening
Records
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Said
Politics
Me
" You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
Political
Process
" I'm very fortunate. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Very
Fortunate