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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.' "

Lindsey Buckingham

Think

Important

Work

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Lindsey Buckingham

Writing

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Being Alone

Alone

" 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. "

" I just find things that work and embellish them. "

" I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything. "

" I'm not really concerned with the outer success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Things

Thought

" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "

" 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.' "

Lindsey Buckingham

Always

Kind

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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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Yourself

Trap

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball. "

" I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper. "

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" It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this. "

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