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" I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Happy
Myself
Mac
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" It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this. "
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Easy
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" All of my style came from listening to records. "
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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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Own
" 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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" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "
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I Love
Like
" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "
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Much
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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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Fleetwood Mac
Say
" Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed. "
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Moment
Time
Work
" It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.' "
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" There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises. "
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Band
Group
You
" 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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Learning
Back
Down
" If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits. "
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Done
Crazy
Night
" I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music. "
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Sales
Where
Music
" 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. "
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Follow
Writing
Up
" What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist. "
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People
Yourself
World
" Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while. "
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Lesson
Great
Five
" 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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You
Know
Fleetwood Mac
" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "
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Fender
Playing
" I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper. "
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Feel
Doing
" My personal life is fairly barren. "
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Fairly
Personal Life
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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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Group
Joy
" If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10. "
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Things
Road
Crazy
" For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that. "
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I Think
Lost
Me
" Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. "
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Fleetwood Mac
Learn
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" I'm very fortunate. "
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Very
Fortunate
" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "
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Judge
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" I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home. "
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Enough
Meet
Late
" One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time. "
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Admire
Know
Always