Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

I don't particularly like working with girlbands because it's very hard to find a girlband that all get on.

When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along better than most bands we toured with and most people we knew. And at the same time, when you're that democratic and concerned with each other's opinions, you're always concerned with what the other people think.

It's important to tour with bands that you get along with.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.

With all the different guys in the band and all the different ideas of what's what, it's hard to get everybody on the same page sometimes. We are a very tight brotherhood, but we never know what we're going to do.

I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.