Mick Fleetwood Quotes

• If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Running, Team, Rocks

  Details Magazine Interview, www.mickfleetwoodofficial.com. August 21, 2014.

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• The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Sides

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• We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

  Mick Fleetwood

  People, Relief, Moments

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2016

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• Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Passion, Commitment, Rocks

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2018

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• Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Wine, Biblical, Glasses

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Natural, Natural Things, Values

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2016

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• Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Pieces, Easy, Fleetwood Mac

  "Mick Fleetwood: We miss Christine... I’m hoping I can get her to rejoin". Interview with Jacqui Swift, www.thesun.co.uk. February 1, 2013.

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• My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Song, Often Is

  FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from May 06, 2015

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• To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Thinking, Needs, Melancholy

  FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Oct 06, 2015

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• No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Doubt, Littles, Gigs

  FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Sep 08, 2014

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• Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Stories, Done, Truthful

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Mother, Hands, Finding Yourself

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• In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Running, Order, People

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• I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don’t drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you’re walking around in.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Work Out, Mind, Needs

  Details Magazine Interview, www.mickfleetwoodofficial.com. August 21, 2014.

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• I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Color, Doubt, Scarves

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• I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Listening, Culture, Records

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• John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Icons, Missing, Mines

  "Playlist: Mick Fleetwood" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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