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" 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. "

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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

Music

Practice

Run

" 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. "

" The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was. "

" 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. "

" I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. "

" I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really. "

" For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that. "

Lindsey Buckingham

I Think

Lost

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Process

Work

" 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. "

" I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Able

Admire

" A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot. "

" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "

" There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together. "

" 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. "

" Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band. "

" Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.' "

Lindsey Buckingham

Band

Myself

" 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

Need

" I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it. "

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Best

I Love

" 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. "