Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Christine McVie
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?
It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or something.
I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.
I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away.
You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.
I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy walking my dogs - actually not doing anything very constructive. I made one little solo album in my garage.
I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'
Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.
You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.
I haven't lost my blues roots.
My writing ability all stems from the blues.
My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.
Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.
I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.
I was by no means a nun.
Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.
There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.
I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.
I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.
My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.
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.
I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.
I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.
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.
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.
Before shows, we rub elbows and growl. It started once when someone had a cold, and we didn't want to hug each other. So we started rubbing elbows. And we don't kiss. We just go, 'Grrrr!'
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish. From that point of view, I think I've always preferred to listen to a song rather than look at it.
I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.
Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.
I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.
'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what I do best.
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.
I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.
WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.
There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.
As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.
I'm quite a domestic person by nature, and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.
I do like my wine.
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.
I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
It's such a diva thing, but I need one room for my suitcases and one for me.
I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.
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.
My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.
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