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.:. The Things They Said .:.
This is just a collection of weird quotes from all of the members of FM - I read them and thought they were funny, who knows, maybe you will too - enjoy! (the new quotes are at the top by the way)
"I made a quip about being able to play Don't Stop with my hands tied behind my back, which of course is physically impossible." - Christine McVie, 1993
"It's just one of those things, the right album at the right time. But that's the criteria of making it in this business. A big album. Then you get your own TV show, you go make a movie." - John McVie on Rumours, 1977
"It was written about John, but one can apply those lyrics to just about anything. It's a very positive, up song...the words are very applicable to any political party..plus insurance companies and God knows what else." - Christine McVie, 1993
"There was a little bit of apprehension. There were some people keener than others...not mentioning any names, but his initials are M.F." - Christine McVie, 1997
"I spent very little time around Lindsey in the 1980s and his insane kind of going-insane thing." - Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1997
"Dress like a gypsy!" - Stevie Nicks
"...Stevie would like a grand piano in her room...great�it�s nine stories up...ah hell...put it through the window." - John McVie
"...and when we went in to do it...suddenly we were in this wild native burial ground at the top of the sacred mountain in Africa...doing this record called �Tusk�...with the wild cover...with this dog trying to tear someone�s leg off." - Stevie Nicks
"Things were happening in lives...y�know...people were going...fuck you...screw you...what...OK...I�ll screw you...you screw me...I think the only ones who didn�t have an affair were me and Mick" - John McVie
"I'm forgetting a whole two-year episode with a Swedish guy I was engaged to. Ended up totally traumatizing my kitten who hated me evermore 'cause I just ran around the house screaming when he left me.� - Christine McVie, Rolling Stone, 1977
��and I had this strange relationship with a crazy German DJ�� � Christine McVie, Rolling Stone, 1977
Then there were the Sausalito sessions. "Trauma," Christine groans. "Trau-ma� We ended up staying in these weird hospital rooms...� � Christine McVie, Rolling Stone, 1977
Christine McVie on playing the field:
"It would be a new experience," she says shyly, growing amused at the thought. "Sure, you know." She leans toward a telephone. "Kenny Loggins! Call me up. I'd love to have a load of dates. I haven't done that since I was at college. But it's really out of the question. I mean I hardly meet anybody. I'm so involved in the band."
Christine McVie's eyes light up with a revelation. "Seven more years until I'm forty. Then I'll start all over again..." � Rolling Stone, 1977
�Being seen wearing a Gucci suit... that syndrome is so sad." � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1977
�I really can come up with anything on politics, state of society, the relation of music to society... it's just horseshit. I play bass." � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1977
�I don't even believe in making plans.� - Mick Fleetwood, Rolling Stone, 1977
��and then going to New York every once in a while to shop. I love that too, but I mostly like to be in a really warm place with a bunch of animals, dogs and cats." � Mick Fleetwood, Rolling Stone, 1977
"Just 'cause you're in the public eye doesn't mean you don't go through the same bullshit." � Lindsey Buckingham, Rolling Stone, 1977
Lindsey Buckingham sets down the guitar. "Tonight I just want to get drunk," he announces. "I know the exact place too. They let me throw the food..." � Lindsey Buckingham, Rolling Stone, 1977
"Christine McVie got in the car with us," David Young recalls, "and sort of looked around. Then she said: 'Are we stars?' " - Rolling Stone, 1978
"For example, everybody's real interested in the fact that when we walk on-stage, Christine is dressed in her trip, and John is wearing cutoffs and a penguin T-shirt, Mick with knickers and vest, looking like Ichabod Crane, and Lindsey's in a suit, and I'm dripping in chiffon. It's weird. All these people look like they're going to a different place.� � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone 1978
"I love Halloween. For me it's the best holiday of the year. I always dress up like a vampire or a witch--even more than I do on stage." � Stevie Nicks, US Magazine, 1980
"If you stop to think about it," she explains, "it never works." � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1980
"Thank you for being...uh...Americans," � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1980
"Crystal visions really do come true." � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1980
�If it needs someone hitting a Kleenex box instead of me hitting snare drums, then we're going to hit the Kleenex box!" � Mick Fleetwood, Rolling Stone, 1980
"I got drunk and kicked a door" � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1980
"That song!" � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1980 about �Go Your Own Way�
"Now, I want you to know---that line about 'shacking up'? I never shacked up with anybody when I was with him! People will hear the song and think that! I was the one who broke up with him." She smiles conspiratorially. "All he wanted to do was fall asleep with that guitar." � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1980 about �Go Your Own Way�
"I'm---let's see, how old am I now? I'm thirty-four. I'm getting up there, yes? You look at yourself in the mirror and watch the wrinkles coming in, one by one..." � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1980
"Oh. We ought to mail these people a Fleetwood Mac biography. Labeled BEWARE!" � John McVie, Rolling Stone, 1980
�I don't have the time! I�m too nervous! I have to get ready for a show!� � Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone 1981
"I'm the baby of Fleetwood Mac--ha! I'm 33 years old, a very old baby� � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
�If you're stuck for party games anytime, try doing the Guess Which One Of Your Friends Likes Which Member Of The Mac.� � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
"It's funny to see us before we go onstage, standing in a circle. We look ridiculous! Totally absolutely ridiculous! John's got his crew socks and his cut-offs and his t-shirt and his baseball hat. Mick's got his velvet knickers and the same tights and the same shoes he's worn for a hundred years--you wouldn't want to be within 50 feet of him in that outfit, especially the next night when he's put it back on after it's been in the bus all day and never dried! Lindsey wears the same two Armani suits, one white and one gray, every night," � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
"I realized if I wanted to be in Fleetwood Mac I was going to really have to figure out a gimmick--like toe-dancing or something nobody else could do.� � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
"I wanted to go to hairdressing school� � Stevie Nicks, Creem 1982
"It was straight out of obscurity--heavy obscurity. I was a member of Fleetwood Mac and still working at the restaurant [Burger King] for two weeks because I'd given them notice. It was strange. It would have taken me weeks to make what I was making on one week with Fleetwood Mac, but I didn't want to walk in there and say 'well now I'm going to be famous rock 'n' roll star so I quit! And I never liked food anyway.�� � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
"But then you could never fire John. It would be like Fleetwood--", Stevie pauses. "You can't fire the Mac!" � Stevie Nicks, Creem, 1982
"We play well together" � Christine McVie, The Record, 1982
"I just saw it in the stars that it would work, and it did!� � Stevie Nicks (about The Wild Heart) Hit Parader Magazine, 1983
"Sometimes I think that not even the bubbliest, wildest soap opera could compare with being in Fleetwood Mac� � Stevie Nicks, Record Mirror, 1989
"But I think we�ve always been too sophisticated to become your average hotel wrecking band. We always put a bit of thought into any of the pranks we got up to. I remember we played the last night of a tour in Hawaii and somebody put chickens in the road manager�s room. It looked like a farmyard because somebody had put straw all over the place as well. And then we had this terrific fight with chocolate cream cakes. I was wearing a white chiffon outfit and my beautiful white suede boots. I never did get the muck properly cleaned off.� � Stevie Nicks, Record Mirror, 1989
"He'll say I'm like an airplane that doesn't have any radar!" � Stevie Nicks (on what Tom Petty will say about her) Revolution, 1989
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don�t do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. � Christine McVie, Songwriter Connection, October 1984
"If Lindsey would just call me back, we would release the album because there are a lot of labels, including Atlantic, who are very interested in it. But Lindsey has just been incommunicado lately, and if he doesn't call me back soon I'm going to put a huge ad in Billboard that says, 'Lindsey Buckingham is the reason that Buckingham/Nicks hasn't been released on CD,' because it's all him. So sign the petition because I'm doing what I can." � Stevie Nicks, Music Connection, 1994
�Everybody was really screwed up, but we got the greatest rock & roll soap opera out of it." � Stevie Nicks, Music Connection, 1994
I remember walking into a fur salon in 1980 and buying two floor-length fur coats. Of course everybody said, "You're not really going to do that, are you?" And of course I said, "Oh, yes, I really am." � Stevie Nicks, Allure, 1995
He [Prince] was driving about 120 miles an hour in his purple car, with me in my black chiffon stage clothes, him in his purple suit, purple car. We were going so over the speed limit that I said, "If we get pulled over we're dead. Because you and I don't look like we're from this planet." � Stevie Nicks, Allure, 1995
"For me a 50th birthday is an excuse for people to buy you fabulous presents" � Stevie Nicks, McCall�s Magazine, 1999
when asked what annoys her "Waiting. [Long pause and a smile] And I'm always late. It's the Gemini in me. Otherwise, just wrong things said at the wrong time. Like, 'Oh, you gained a little weight around the chin.' You know, right before a photo session. Some people have incredible tact and an
intuitive feel for your feelings. Others don't. Some people can wake me up in the morning, they know how. Others, if I had a BB gun, they'd be on the wall." �Stevie Nicks
"The ocean is so heavy and so big and so massive and so dangerous, it just
makes me feel better. It's way better than Prozac." �Stevie Nicks
"Yes, I know we've been on the verge of breaking up for years," said Christine McVie sarcastically. "It's not true, I assure you. There's no reason to break up, but for some reason people seem to like to think we are breaking up." �Christine McVie, LA Times, 1982
�Well, you see, I don't feel like I've been in the limelight
as far as the attention focused on the group. Stevie, in the beginning, her visual presence and just her personality were so strong. That was always the figurehead of the group, and still is, in a way. In that way, I really haven't had to deal with a barrage of external adulation by any means. I very seldom get a fan letter.� � Lindsey Buckingham, Musician Player & Listener Magazine, 1981
�In terms of musical sense. Mick's musical sense is hard to
pin down, because it's just such an instinctive thing. But in terms of just writing songs, that hasn't changed, no. For instance, Stevie will write her words, and everything will be central to that. That's good; sometimes I wish I could do that. Mine are usually central to a groove of some sort, and everything else will follow. That hasn't changed over all this time. A lot of rock 'n' rollers do that.� � Lindsey, Musician Player & Listener Magazine, 1981
Stevie does the same thing with her words; she surprises you with phrasings. But there's an advantage to the other way, too. If you can eventually get around that, and make it so
that your vocal doesn't sound stiff, then the advantage is that you're so much more aware of how to make one track sound totally different from the other, in terms of applying a certain instrument to it or something. But in terms of a structure-like A-B-A-B-C or whatever-my songs are probably a lot more that way than Stevie's, because she doesn't really know A-B-A-B-C. She writes like Mick drums. �Lindsey, Musician Player & Listener Magazine, 1981
�Well, I decided to cut my hair long before everyone else
did. It wasn't necessarily to look punk or anything. I was just tired of the beard, so I shaved it. Then the hair didn't look right without the beard, so I cut the hair. It's all been gradual. Found a couple of new clothes stores, started buying some new suits... As far as the movements, it's funny, because I used to do more of that when I was playing bass in Fritz. I think maybe when I first joined the band, it was such a new thing, and I wasn't sure of my role, I just sort of withdrew into the back. It's not something that wasn't there before, as far as the stage presence; it just wasn't coming out for a long time. It was sort of beaten back, I guess.� �Lindsey, Musician Player & Listener Magazine, 1981
"I think we rather enjoy being the center of gossip. We enjoy other people enjoying it. People are actually fascinated to see if we really are fighting all the time, and we definitely get a perverted kick out of knowing that." � Christine McVie, US Magazine, 1982
"We're a bloody good band, that's why we're successful." � Christine McVie, Record Mirror, 1983
"It's amazing how strong of a bond we actually all do have. I just noticed yesterday when we were rehearsing; John and Lindsey were walking away from me with their arms around each other. I thought: 'Wow, I've never seen that in my life before.'
Don't start any rumors, though," (said with a laugh) � Christine McVie, Orlando Sentinel, 1997
�Stevie's lyrics are a bit like, er, 'space cadet' sometimes�� � John McVie, Bassist, 1998
�I'm just a boring old fart that plays bass� � John McVie, Bassist, 1998
"I am not a witch! Get a life!" - Stevie Nicks, Yahoo Chat, 1998
"...and once you've had a mic with chiffon, an empty mic is a drag!" - Stevie Nicks, Yahoo Chat, 1998
"Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton was about the wildest thing that's ever happened politically. That was sex and love and politics and soap opera. I'm always looking for wild and crazy things, so I was pretty taken with the craziness. I wasn't happy with either of them, but when you've been famous for a long time, you're a little more lenient, because shit happens." - Stevie Nicks, Rolling Stone, 1999
B&N.com: Over the sample they sing, "I don't think you're ready for this jelly/My body too bootylicious for you, babe."
Stevie: Oh my goodness! Oh well, I'll try not to turn into my mother, Barbara, and give them a quick call.� � Stevie, (about the Destiny�s Child song �Bootylicious� which has a sample of "Edge of 17" in it) Barnes and Noble Interview, 2001
"One should not live without dimmers." - words of wisdom from the one and only Stevie Nicks, 2001
"My mother calls me TD Bird, she calls me TD Bird....it�s really sickening, isn�t it!?" - Stevie Nicks, 2001
"Whenever I call you friend....dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah...I don�t have any voice! I just went to a doctor, thank you! I just went to an ENT just now, he said don�t sing!" - Stevie Nicks, 2001, from some radio interview that I'm too lazy to look up the name to - this is cracking me up! I want to hear her say this! *lmao*
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