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" It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Time
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Long
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" 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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" 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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" Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.' "
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Important
Work
" Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87. "
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Decision
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" When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. "
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" 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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Kind
Like
" I'm not really concerned with the outer success. "
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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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Chemistry
Group
Joy
" 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
" 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
" I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. "
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Kind
Production
Label
" 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
Work
Start
" 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
" We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band. "
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Painting
Beginning
Band
" 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
Names
Stage
" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "
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Songs
Judge
Myself
" 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
" 'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well. "
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Experience
Looking Back
Looking
" 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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Things
Thought
" 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. "
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Creating
" Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me. "
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Lot
" 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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Time
Work
" Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important. "
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Know
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" I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball. "
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Eye
Matter
Genius
" My personal life is fairly barren. "
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Fairly
Personal Life
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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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Audience
Kid
Class
" I'm very fortunate. "
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Very
Fortunate