Creativity Quote by Mick Fleetwood

Spoken like a man who’s spent decades watching feelings spill as freely as guitar solos. “There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know” is Mick Fleetwood doing what veteran bandleaders do best: managing the temperature in the room with a half-joke that’s also a warning label.

The line lands because it’s practical and loaded at once. On the surface, it’s stage-manager talk about an environment built for repetition: “loops” suggests studio playback, rehearsals, endless takes, the mechanical churn of revisiting moments until they’re “right.” Fleetwood’s aside - “just so you know” - carries the casual authority of someone who’s seen this movie and knows where the tears usually start. No tissues means: don’t expect comfort; don’t expect the process to cradle you.

The subtext is Fleetwood Mac’s long cultural shadow: a band that turned interpersonal wreckage into immaculate pop. In that mythology, the studio isn’t a safe space; it’s a pressure cooker that weaponizes memory. You can hear an echo of boundaries being drawn. If you’re about to reopen old wounds - romantic, professional, chemical, whatever - you’re doing it on the clock, under fluorescent lights, not in therapy.

It’s also Fleetwood’s sly way of puncturing rock’s sentimental self-image. The music may be catharsis, but the machinery that makes it is indifferent. No Kleenex on the loops: bring your own feelings, and clean up after yourself.