Mick Fleetwood famous quotes

03-18-2025

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

#Running #Team #Rocks
Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#Commitment #Passion #Rocks
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

#Running #Order #People
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

#Pieces #Easy #Fleetwood Mac
We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#People #Relief #Moments
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#Song
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

#Icons #Missing
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

#Mother #Hands #Finding Yourself
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

#Done #Stories #Truthful
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

#Color #Doubt #Scarves
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

#Listening #Records #England
The down side these days is thinking that, â€œI can do this all on my ownâ€.Â Yes, you can do this on your own but youâ€™ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#Thinking #Sides #These Days
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

#Thinking #Needs #Melancholy
The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#Natural #Values
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

#Doubt #Littles #Gigs
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

#Work Out #Mind #Needs
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

#Wine #Biblical #Glasses

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