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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark [was the record that changed my life]. I was over at Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olson's house and he had these great speakers that were as tall as me, and Joni's record had just come out, and I put it on. He went away, it was just me, and I listened to this record for three days. She was able to stuff so many words into one sentence and not have them sound crowded. She was talking about what it was like to be very famous and to be a woman living in a man's world. She had been in the world of fame much longer than me, and she had gone out with every famous rock 'n' roll star that there was. And she was such an amazing guitarist that they all respected her. That was unheard of. She was in the boy's club. She talked about what I saw coming. Even though Buckingham Nicks had tanked, I knew that we were going to be very famous, very rich, and it was like a great old premonition just being laid out in front of me. There is a song on it called The Same Situation and that song just would kill me when I'd hear it. Because I knew it was coming. |
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If you believe in destiny ~ which I do ~ it seems like my life was pretty mapped
out. It seems almost like there was somebody up there moving the chess players.
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Yeah, I think I had a definite glimpse 'cause I loved my writing, I thought
I was very good. Nobody else really did ~ but I did, and Robin did, my friend
listened to me and she said, 'Hey, that's not bad, keep writing maybe you'll be
rich someday,' Cause I knew I was never going to be a good person to get up at
8 and be at an office at 9 [a.m.] and drive in traffic at 5:30. I knew
instinctively, as a pretty little girl that I wasn't gonna be happening for the
office scene..as soon as I wrote the song [her first song I've Loved and
I've Lost] that cinched it. |
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Usually something that I get a feeling for is so quickly done that I do feel
like it's just coming from something, or like somebody is telling me a story,
and I'm telling it on paper. Because I don't know where these ideas come from
~ I don't go looking for them ~ there's no dolphins or stars [she had written
a song last night about a dolphin and a star], there's no...it all comes out
of my head. And sometimes I think that it must be my grandmother or my great-aunt
Sara, or somebody that is telling me something. I'd be very upset if it ever stopped,
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I only saw Janis Joplin one time ~ on a hot summer day in San Jose, California, at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds. We [Lindsey and I] were opening a big outdoor show for her, and because of that, I got to stay on-stage and watch the other bands. I don't exactly know what I expected, but I did not expect what I witnessed. She was extraordinary. She had a connection with the audience that I had not
seen before, and when she left the stage ~ I knew that a little bit of my destiny
had changed ~ I would search to find that connection that I had seen between Janis
and her audience. In a blink of an eye ~ she changed my life. |
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[The duo] Buckingham/Nicks had to bite the bullet for Fleetwood Mac, That's a choice. We'll never quite know exactly what would have happened if we had gone the other way. ... And of course, that's the thing that Lindsey probably gets the most upset about
in his heart sometimes ~ he wonders what would have happened if it had just been
the two of us. ... Which is not to say we don't love Fleetwood Mac. We do. But
it would have been a whole other life. Destiny would have just knocked it a whole
other way. |
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Every day I feel I have to do something, whether it's write a paragraph or
sit at the piano for five minutes or go to the studio for a little while. If I
don't feel I've done something worthwhile every day then I feel worthless. I feel
always that I want to live up to my end of the bargain, that I was given something
by God, and He asks only that I give Him back something. |
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There were times when I was between twenty and twenty-seven ~ when I joined
Fleetwood Mac ~ that my dad would say, 'How long are you going to do this? You
have no money, you're not happy, you work constantly, you work at restaurants,
you clean houses, you get sick very easily, you're living in Los Angeles, you
don't have any friends, why are you doing this?' And I would just say, 'Because
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I believe I was definitely sent down here to take people away for a little
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This
next song is a song that ~ I just finished telling this to the people in San Francisco
last night ~ that I wrote in San Francisco when I went up there in 1973 to kind
of cool out from L.A.. And I met somebody. And I didn't know whether or not I
wanted to come back to Los Angeles, to Lindsey or not. So I had to make a decision.
And, the decision obviously was to go back to Los Angeles and do this thing, but...so
this song is called Destiny.
