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" If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon. "

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

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" I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity. "

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" 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. "

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" If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10. "

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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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" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

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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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" Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important. "

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" I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means. "

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" This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. "

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" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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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" I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

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" You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie. "

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" I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. "

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" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. "

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" Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. "

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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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