Words matter. These are the best Fleetwood Quotes from famous people such as Christine McVie, Caroline Corr, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Peter Crouch, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think there’s a reason to go off and do something and experiment – splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that’s what you call it.
When you’re in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that’s the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that’s, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.
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.’
I had Fleetwood Mac on, and Saido Berahino asked me if it was from a movie soundtrack.
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, ‘someone who had wonderful style.’ He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.
My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to – I hate to admit it, but – Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac and the Moody Blues.
Dancing freely to Fleetwood Mac always makes me happy.
We’ve always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we’re the only people who play more than one note. I’m not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey’s playing.
One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac.
I take inspiration from so many places. I think, more than anything, it would have to be the music made by others that I’ve then fallen in love with, whether it’s Madonna, Blood Orange, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd!
The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.
All of us… anyone that’s been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I’ve been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes – God knows we weren’t – but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it’s more like movie making.
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.
Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.
When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.
I’m rather old-fashioned about this video business. It’s all relatively new. We really don’t do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We’ve only done two.
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.
We’re celebrating our sixth year with my Fleetwood’s, and in a restaurant, that’s a lot.
Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it.
I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.
Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record – you know what.
Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.
Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.
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.
We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.
Moving to Fleetwood was a shock to the system at first. I’d never been at a full-time club.
I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio – my mom’s car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio.
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.
You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.
You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.
I’m a big fan of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac.
