Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

• If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

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  Maturity, Knows, Ifs

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• I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

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  Instinct

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• When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

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  Painting, Fleetwood Mac, Process

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• Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

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  Integrity, People, Expectations

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• That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

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  Propaganda

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• 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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  Interesting, Musical, Soap

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• I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

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  Philosophy, Use, World

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

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  Travel, Holiday, Long Ago

  Song: Holiday Road

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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.

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  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

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  Taken, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

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  Lessons, Scales, Knows

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• But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

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  Giving, Down And, Slow Down

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• I just find things that work and embellish them.

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• All of my style came from listening to records.

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  Style, Listening, Records

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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

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  Canvas, Paint, Form

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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.

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  Couple, Play, Work Out

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• I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

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  Karma, Kids, Two

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• 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.

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  Writing, Different, Done

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