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When anyone has been in the music world as long as Stevie Nicks<\/a> has, they have to know when to pick their battles. <\/p>\n As much as Rumours may have been a nightmare to create, it was much better for her and Lindsey Buckingham to put their differences aside for the music rather than break up before the record even came out. They knew that their art was what mattered over anything else, but there was also a limit on how far someone should go to get their message out to the world.<\/p>\n Then again, it\u2019s not like Nicks was ever afraid to speak her mind by any means. Throughout every single record she made, she preferred to let her songs do the talking half the time and let the chips fall where they may, whether that was talking about the baby that she gave up on \u2018Sara\u2019, paying tribute to her friend on \u2018Gypsy\u2019, or putting Buckingham in his place for treating her like trash when writing \u2018Silver Springs\u2019. <\/p>\n That kind of fire never exactly went out, either. Most artists of Nicks\u2019s calibre would have either stopped making music by this point or tried to play it as safe as possible on their records, but even when working on Fleetwood Mac\u2019s comeback album Say You Will, she was still willing to tell her perspective on current events like the 9-11 tribute \u2018Illume\u2019. But even if she spoke her mind, it was never maliciously at any point.<\/p>\n And judging by what went down between her and Buckingham, do you know how difficult that is? Anyone who wrote songs like \u2018Second Hand News<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Go Your Own Way\u2019 about their other half would have usually been in for the ass-kicking of a lifetime, but Nicks knew to use her songwriting talents for good whenever she had the chance. There were repercussions, but no one realised that they may be risking their lives by playing music.<\/p>\n It would have been easy for Nicks to be invited for various charity shows if she wanted, but when looking at what Jackson Browne was doing for anti-nukes, she was practically shaking in her boots for him. When it comes to fighting those political battles, musicians can act with their hearts first, but Nicks felt that there was no way that she could have done half of the moves that Browne did during those shows.<\/p>\n