American - Musician | October 3, 1949 -
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
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Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.'
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.
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I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.
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I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.
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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.
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As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.
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I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
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I seldom look back.
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I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.
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