Lindsey Buckingham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Instinct
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Maturity
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Integrity #People #Expectations
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Painting #Fleetwood Mac #Process
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.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Canvas #Paint #Form
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.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Writing #Different #Done
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Propaganda
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.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Taken #Thinking #Appreciate
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.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Travel #Holiday #Long
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Lessons #Scales
I just find things that work and embellish them.
-- Lindsey Buckingham
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.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Giving #Down And #Slow Down
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Interesting #Musical #Levels
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

#Couple #Play #Work Out
All of my style came from listening to records.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Style #Listening #Records
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

#Break Up #Exercise #Order
I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Karma #Kids #Two
I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Philosophy #Use #World

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