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Lindsey Buckingham

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 3, 1949

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.

Lindsey Buckingham

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.

Lindsey Buckingham

I'm very fortunate.

Lindsey Buckingham

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

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

Lindsey Buckingham

If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

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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.

Lindsey Buckingham

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.

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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 do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

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I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.

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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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You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.

Lindsey Buckingham

Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place.

Lindsey Buckingham

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

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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

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.

Lindsey Buckingham

For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that.

Lindsey Buckingham

You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself.

Lindsey Buckingham

The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.'

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