Mick Fleetwood Quotes

#1. When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Caroline Corr

#2. 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.

Dave Grohl

#3. I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

Mick Fleetwood

#4. John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Mick Fleetwood

#5. Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#6. For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Jed Rubenfeld

#7. No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

#8. The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Mick Fleetwood

#9. That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Mick Fleetwood

#10. To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

Mick Fleetwood

#11. We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

Mick Fleetwood

#12. 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.

Mick Fleetwood

#13. If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Mick Fleetwood

#14. As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

Norbert Reithofer

#15. There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

Mick Fleetwood

#16. I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

Mick Fleetwood

#17. Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Mick Fleetwood

#18. The down side these days is thinking that, "I can do this all on my own". Yes, you can do this on your own but you'll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

Mick Fleetwood

#19. The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

Mick Fleetwood

#20. My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass
of post-human organic circuitry.
Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.
My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Yann Rousselot

#21. I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

Mick Fleetwood

#22. At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Mick Fleetwood

#23. When she told me how Phil had built a platform that hung five feet from the floor by thick chains to hold the drummer's kit, I nearly died. He'd built it because he believed that drums should be recorded from

Mick Fleetwood

#24. My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Mick Fleetwood

#25. I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

Mick Fleetwood

#26. Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

Mick Fleetwood

#27. In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Mick Fleetwood

#28. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mick Fleetwood

#29. My life was full of drama, with the highs and lows of Tyler's daily mood swings and my private innuendos with Vandenberg. There'd never been a movie made that could permanently shift my mood away from my disappointment with myself.

J.C. Patrick

#30. 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.

Lindsey Buckingham