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" Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Working Together
Together
Love
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Wife
Children
" The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history. "
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Mean
You
" 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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" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "
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I Love
Like
" I'm not ashamed of my personal life. "
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Personal Life
Personal
Ashamed
" That really was a lot of the appeal of 'Rumours.' The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other. It was also appealing because we were rising to the occasion to follow our destiny. "
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Follow
Writing
Up
" I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. "
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Years
Time
" When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear. "
Lindsey Buckingham
School
College
Guitar
" When people just decide they're going to reconvene, there's no guarantee that they're going to have any of that chemistry. Sometimes people try to do that, and it's a struggle to try to recreate what once was. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Chemistry
People
Sometimes
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Personal
Think
Push
" The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Writing
Bit
Done
" Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. "
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Doing
Happy
Night
" There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Band
Group
You
" 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
" 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
Music
" 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
" 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
Up
Trap
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
I Can
Creative
Pretty
" Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. "
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Years
Those
Best
" 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. "
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Family
Love
Together
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
Political
Process
" Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. "
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Fleetwood Mac
Learn
Solo
" 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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I Feel Like
Way
Time
" I seldom look back. "
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Back
Seldom
Look
" 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. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Good
Confidence
Doing
" You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Wheel
You
Audience
" 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
Success
See
" Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons. "
Lindsey Buckingham
I Wish
Want
Always
" 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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Kid
Class