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" When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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" I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity. "
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" I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is. "
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" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was. "
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Did
Looking
Myself
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Painting
Beginning
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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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
People
Start
Doing
" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "
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Phoenix
Very
Well
" 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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My Own
Band
Own
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Know
Never
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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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Style
Stuff
Myself
" 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
Writing
Door
Back
" There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Music
Colorful
Think
" After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Weird
Work
Me
" If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Dumb
You
Need
" I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Happy
Myself
Mac
" 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
Were
Music
Zone
" That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. "
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Voice
Strength
Way
" 'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Experience
Looking Back
Looking
" When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Successful
You
Time
" 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
Now
Kind
Karma
" A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot. "
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House
Whole
Furniture
" I'm very fortunate. "
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Very
Fortunate
" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "
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Best
I Love
Like
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Said
Politics
Me
" I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Brother
Listening
Hotel
" 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. "
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Band
You
Three
" Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. "
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Soap
Opera
Level