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Surely, making music should be a joyful process, one rooted in fun and play. Is that not what all creativity is? Let the imagination run wild, and then figure out how to use your skills to bring whatever vision might have come to life. Really, the studio should be a kind of playground where musicians get to mess around and make a masterpiece from the freedom of that, but Stevie Nicks<\/a> never saw that in the eyes of one of her key collaborators.<\/p>\n That introduction rings true, but it\u2019s also true that it\u2019s a tricky balance. Creativity as play is one thing, but then it hits a point where work has to be done. Especially when an artist is purposefully trying to do something new and pioneering, that joyful experimentation will eventually have to give way to real focus and figuring things out. While an idea might strike in a moment like a gift from up above, the actual technicality of it and the ability to make it happen don\u2019t appear in an instant. At some point, things have to get serious.<\/p>\n The golden land lies between the two, though. An artist should be able to have fun and get stuff done. In Stevie Nicks\u2019 experience, Lindsey Buckingham never managed that. Instead, he was all work all the time, taking everything deadly serious. He\u2019s a perfectionist to an almost miserable degree<\/a> \u2013 and that\u2019s why, in the end, Nicks knew they\u2019d never work.<\/p>\n When asked if Buckingham is a perfectionist, Nicks laughed at the understatement. \u201cUtter,\u201d she said to ABC, \u201cTo the point of \u2018why can\u2019t you just come and play?\u2019, and it\u2019s like, \u2018well I can\u2019t just do that.\u2019\u201d The guitarist simply couldn\u2019t allow himself to let loose when it came to their music, and in that, Nicks saw the ultimate issue in their romantic relationship<\/a>, too.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the reason, and I love Lindsey, but that\u2019s the reason that Lindsey and I aren\u2019t together. It\u2019s because I\u2019m radical, you know, it\u2019s like, I just want to play,\u201d she said. It translated across every corner of their life together, from their love into the band. In Fleetwood Mac, it came up at every turn of how the group make their music. \u201cI just want us all together here, and set up some microphones, and a camera, and I just want to play. And Lindsey, it needs to be perfect for Lindsey,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n