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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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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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. "
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" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "
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" 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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" I'm not really concerned with the outer success. "
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" 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. "
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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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Painting
Song
" All of my style came from listening to records. "
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Listening
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" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "
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Guitar
" We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage. "
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Right
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Stage
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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" I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels. "
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" 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. "
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You
Political
Process
" 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. "
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Dark
Bright
You
" The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing. "
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Writing
Bit
Done
" I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. "
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Trust
Instincts
Confident
" I just find things that work and embellish them. "
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Work
Things
Them
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Business
Artist
Long
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Voice
Strength
Way
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Touch
Voice
Artist
" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Phoenix
Very
Well
" I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Kind
Production
Label
" 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.' "
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First
Always
Joke
" One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance. "
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Touch
Together
Talk
" You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms. "
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You
Success
See
" 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
" When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. "
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Process
Work
More
" 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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Good
Confidence
Doing
" Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me. "
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Symbolism
Studio
Lot