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Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham
American Musician
Born: Oct 3, 1949
Band Music Think Time Work You
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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
Music Myself Business Luxury Earned Guess More Feed Taking Make Dues Commercial Being Where Experimental While Choose Paying Right Position
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
Music Time You Take Takes Make Sort Got Up Stock Commercially Done Going Legs Hold Whether Place Mean Really Successful Even
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. Lindsey Buckingham
Interpretation Think Lyrics More Poetic Open Gotten Literal Less Necessarily
I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. Lindsey Buckingham
Kind Put Aesthetic Label Any Production
'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well. Lindsey Buckingham
Good Experience Looking Looking Back Back Pretty Seems Well Tango Up Hold
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 Song Looking Sense Sets Diminish Running Constantly More Particular Like Make Another Making Off Get List Just Order Place Against Might Gonna Next Certain Creating Certain Things Next Thing Thing Things Album Set
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
Success Music Scale Rumours About Point Becomes Were After Certain Zone Phenomenon
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
Thought Made Rest Important Band Cynical Negativity Way Rumours Open Had Hostility Towards New Because Territory Got Sell New Territory Flak Move Just Then Certain View Reasons Many Why Amount
'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. Lindsey Buckingham
Love Song Guitar Single Big Ensemble Piece Done Originally Now
You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself. Lindsey Buckingham
You Age Yourself Become Caricature Tricky Becomes Am Get Certain Certain Age
When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear. Lindsey Buckingham
Guitar School College Band Bass High Gear High School Lead Because After Even Play Played
I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it. Lindsey Buckingham
Music Home Listening Older Brother Brought Hotel Course Always Heartbreak Interested Older Brother
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. Lindsey Buckingham
Guitar Style Situation Later Out More Lead Lead Guitar Particular Sort Because Came Expectations Orchestral Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Foundation Necessity Playing
Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham
Whatever Back Mac Out Solo Learn While Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac Certainly Bring
My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. Lindsey Buckingham
Guitar Singing Guitar Playing Center Much Really Playing
You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups. Lindsey Buckingham
Success Broken You Matter Say Those Rumours Could Had Catalyst Drove Look Couples Were Subject Subject Matter Up Achieved Breaking Breaking Up Who Two
If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work. Lindsey Buckingham
Work Me Everybody Side Solo Would Follow Had Like Been Left Wanted Need
I'm not ashamed of my personal life. Lindsey Buckingham
Life Personal Life Personal Ashamed
I'm not that knowledgeable with the guitar - I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it's all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do. Lindsey Buckingham
Creative Guitar Framework Ways Find Pretty Knowledgeable Within Limitations Just
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
Work Myself Me Finished Half Band Back Project Seventeen Mac Months Solo Point Put Tango Came Committed Which Aside Produce Asked Next Fleetwood Working Fleetwood Mac Producing Album Night Third
It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this. Lindsey Buckingham
You Business Expectation Believe Solo Kind Outcome Easy Point Stuff Terms Because Always Doing Been Commercial Get Any Where
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was. Lindsey Buckingham
Myself Rest First Looking Band Couple Around Did Wondering Where Shows
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
Music Writing Wonderful Other Our Destiny Rumours Follow Rising Also Occasion Couples Because Dialogue Were Lot Up Authentic Breaking Breaking Up Really Appeal Appealing Each Two
Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons. Lindsey Buckingham
Sometimes Wish Same Thing One Thing Able Always Were Been Same Want Reasons Thing Eagles
Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. Lindsey Buckingham
Fire Phoenix Arcade Seems Well Doing Very Certainly
When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different. Lindsey Buckingham
Work Alone Myself Style Think Something Studio Stuff Becomes Lot Different Little Playing
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