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" I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Process

Work

" 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. "

" You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself. "

" Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me. "

" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "

" Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. "

" 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. "

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

Lindsey Buckingham

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Lost

" I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really. "

" 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. "

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

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" I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. "

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

" We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish. "

" 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. "

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

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" 'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well. "

" 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.' "

" 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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Lindsey Buckingham

Things

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