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" You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Age
Say
Practice
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" I just find things that work and embellish them. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Up
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" 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
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Night
" 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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" I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all. "
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Group
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" My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation. "
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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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