Christine McVie quote: "Normally there's a characteristic in each song, either a riff or an underlying musical theme, that makes the keyboard part clear if you look for it."

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was l...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a tel...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I cover most of the sound that we use on records with what I have. And people tell us that we still ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

A duck walked into my kitchen this morning.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd d...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

At the moment I'm really happy.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I've never written with the intention of writing hits. I guess I'm a commercial writer, though. My s...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I don't have a star-type attitude. I'm down-to-earth. I tend to laugh at my success. I don't take my...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Other people seem to write about love, don't they? It seems to be the least pretentious subject to w...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Mick and John are happy with me writing songs for the band at this particular point in time. I don't...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I don't separate my work with the band from this solo project-I'm sure the group could have recorded...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

The torpid Chicken Shack records were unfortunately much more typical of British blues than early Fl...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I had been domestic before, in between Chicken Shack and joining Fleetwood Mac. John and I were marr...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I was happily thinking I was retired. That is why I left Fleetwood Mac.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do vide...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

You spend days getting the right drum sound. And vocals take a long time-you can't just do one take ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

'Mirage' was an attempt to get back into the flow that 'Rumours' had. But we missed ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of hea...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

It was like getting together with a great friend and having a drink. All of that animosity was swept...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I like a light touch, a sensitive piano. My wrists aren't that strong, and if I have to hack too har...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I went to London, where I became a window dresser for an exclusive store. I was actually qualified t...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Stevie writes ethereal mystical lyrics, but the moment I write words like that, I get this chill up ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I'm looking more like my dogs every day-it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

When I married John, I felt that it was so great to be around them anyway, just as one of their wive...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

After I'd won the Melody Maker award, things were sort of confused. I was already with John, he was ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

We picked up the instruments and hammered through about 10 songs without batting an eye, just brushi...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I was without a boyfriend for along time. I wouldn't settle for going out on a date just for the sak...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I didn't feel the inclination to put myself out on a limb that much on my first solo album. I stayed...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. Th...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Everyone started doing their solo albums. Stevie did two. Mick went to Ghana, Lindsey did Law and Or...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I won the Melody Maker award for vocalist of the year.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on yo...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I'd never want a studio guy. I wouldn't mind working with another keyboard player, but not a studio ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning t...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

It's such a diva thing, but I need one room for my suitcases and one for me.
CHRISTINE MCVIE

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. I...
CHRISTINE MCVIE

My camping days are over, but I might consider glamping.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and al...
CHRISTINE MILNE

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generall...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were runnin...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't se...
CHRISTINE WARREN

Whether in business or in life, you can be civil and get ahead. Whatever your age or circumst...
CHRISTINE PORATH

I directly asked respondents why they behaved uncivilly.More than half claimed it was because they a...
CHRISTINE PORATH

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had fa...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a cro...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
CHRISTINE WARREN

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who a...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryon...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy
CHRISTINE KEELER

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with in...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTINE BOVEE

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I t...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Y...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend ...
CHRISTINE TSAI

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family....
CHRISTINE BARANSKI

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist...
CHRISTINE QUINN

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperb...
CHRISTINE QUINN

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
CHRISTINE KEELER

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are t...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.
CHRISTINE LAHTI

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy o...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my ins...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they ...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this i...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions b...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as wel...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. T...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have wo...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
CHRISTINE PELOSI

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a la...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you....
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
CHRISTINE KEELER

I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

I can't stand the club scene.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she ...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbor...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the side...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect p...
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginni...
CHRISTINE LAHTI

Savannah handed the glass to Gregori, her eyes anxious. Gary touched his neck. He felt a little dizz...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million mo...
CHRISTINE LAHTI

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was ...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all ...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hour...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homewo...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

Bachelor parties are for the married guys.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was ...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assau...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because,...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
CHRISTINE BARANSKI

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV.
CHRISTINE TAYLOR

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of m...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's form...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a ...
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is wh...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,&#...
CHRISTINE LAKIN

I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape...
CHRISTINE STOCKTON

Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about...
CHRISTINE STOCKTON

...but you have to know when you close those doors, you don't leave anything for the other person.
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and n...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student l...
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL

Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fal...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, r...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to upho...
CHRISTINE QUINN

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
CHRISTINE KEELER

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. ...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who a...
CHRISTINE LAVIN

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the w...
CHRISTINE COLLANGE

The race went well but the start was difficult. The gun isn't loud enough.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I don't know who set the schedule but it is negative for good results.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I'm very disappointed. I really don't know what happened, ... Basically on the first or second strid...
CHRISTINE ARRON

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.
CHRISTINE ARRON

It was not bad. I had to fight back after the bad start.
CHRISTINE ARRON

I know the Golden League has existed for many years now but this is the year when I can do it,
CHRISTINE ARRON

Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing ou...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by so...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

What is important to remember is that people are resilient, and people do have the ability to build ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs lik...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The end is here, but this is what we're here for -- the next eight games. We're pumping ourselves up...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was ...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.
CHRISTINE ALFORD

We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been...
CHRISTINE ALFORD

We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

If the volume is up to over 100 decibels, even one and a half or two hours of use can cause damage.
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear pro...
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person ...
CHRISTINE ALBERTUS

Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between a...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

The risk of sudden cardiac death during an episode of moderate to vigorous exertion in this large gr...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

In our study, the women who were not previously exercising but then did what was out of the ordinary...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

To our knowledge, this analysis is the first to assess both the transient and long-term risk of sudd...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death d...
CHRISTINE ALBERT

When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passio...
CHRISTINE QUINN

My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer th...
CHRISTINE TEIGEN

Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its h...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that i...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
CHRISTINE COMAFORD

Costs are definitely coming down drastically. A lot of good things have happened. Other states are g...
CHRISTINE BAKER

It gives you a little glimpse as to whether you have a low risk for cardiac problems or a high risk.
CHRISTINE MCKELVIE

I'm a person of faith, [but] I don't carry it on my sleeve.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE

"How can you be so sure that you're actually awake now, and that your dream is not the reality?
MJ CHRISTINE

Normally there's a characteristic in each song, either a riff or an underlying musical theme, that makes the keyboard part clear if you look for it.

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