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" Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Years
Those
Best
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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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" The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history. "
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" You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience. "
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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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" You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself. "
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" 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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" I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. "
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" If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere. "
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" I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. "
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" When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different. "
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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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Own
" 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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Group
Joy
" 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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Never
Good
Good Time
" 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. "
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" That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way. "
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People
Start
Doing
" All of my style came from listening to records. "
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Listening
Records
" 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. "
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Like
Me
Need
" What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist. "
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People
Yourself
World
" 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. "
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I Can
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Pretty
" But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. "
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Back
Down
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Integrity
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Doing
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" The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back. "
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Whole
Furniture
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Lost
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Work
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Feelings
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