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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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing. "

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" I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is. "

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" I'm not that knowledgeable with the guitar - I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it's all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. "

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" 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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" I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. "

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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

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I seldom look back. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role. "

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