Quotes by Lindsey Buckingham - Page 3

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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Consistent
First Child
Presence
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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 / Musician
Legs
Time Music Done
Commercially
Stock
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You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Long Term
Staying
Authentic
Creatively
Evolving
Remaining
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Being Done
Ten
Waltz
Till
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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 / Musician
Disappointing
Passive
Treading
Mirage
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There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Fleetwood Mac
Aspiring
Axiom
Fleetwood
Undermine
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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 / Musician
Couple
Dropping
Figures
Play
Tuning
Work Out
Weird
Work Where Me
Fairly
Work Me Weird
Attempts
Work Me Step
Easily
Easy Thing
Failed
Seventh
Step
String
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When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Break Up
Smile
Christine
Denial
Drug Use
Exercise
Midst
Order
Psychology
Rumours
Time Work Done
Breaking
Breaking Up
By The Time
Stevie
Work Time Exercise
John
Worse
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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 / Musician
Albums
Retrospect
Solo
Arises
Efforts
False
Folded
Member
Plate
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Dialogue
Rising
Rumours
Wonderful
Appeal
Authentic
Breaking
Breaking Up
Couples
Follow
Occasion
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Dysfunction
Extended Family
Fleetwood Mac
Love Family Great
Extended
Fleetwood
Great Deal
Perceived
Underneath
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Paint
Corner
Slowly
Right Reasons
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Dues
Luxury
Business Music Myself
Feed
Earned
Paying
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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.'
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Hostility
Negativity
New Territory
Rumours
Territory
Flak
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Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Committed
Fleetwood Mac
Seventeen
Solo
Tango
Work Myself Me
Aside
Fleetwood
Producing
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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 / Musician
Diminish
Certain Things
List
Next Thing
Sets
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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 / Musician
Machinery
Lose Start People
Onto
Pumped
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Cradle
Logical
Solo
Tango
Time Look Night
Extension
Habits
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I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Scales
Music Myself Day
Disciplines
Per
Lesson
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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.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Conscious
Subconscious
Collaborative
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We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.
Lindsey Buckingham / Musician
Freeze
Sensibility
Structure
Work Start Always
Blocking
Builds
Dynamic
Finish
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