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" I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience. "

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" All of my style came from listening to records. "

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" When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be. "

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" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "

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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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" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "

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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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" 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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" I just find things that work and embellish them. "

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" If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere. "

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" My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation. "

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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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" The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history. "

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" 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.' "

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" But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. "

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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's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way. "

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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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" 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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" As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar. "

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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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" 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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