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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

Bill Bruford

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
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Country Different Guy Hard
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with – good, bad and indifferent. It’s extremely hard to be specific.
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Indifferent People Surrounding Yourself
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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Emphasis Facts Lot Thinking
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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Helpful Style Weakness
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Alcohol Awful Fear
So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that.
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Adding Harmony Learnt More Provided Rugged
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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Bills Drummer Fabulous
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
I didn’t write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn’t.
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Musician Remember Two Writing
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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Areas Rhythm Rooms
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
And we’d drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink… And now people don’t drink nearly as much, for good reason. We’re all a little wiser.
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Good People Scotch Sweet
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.
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Entertainment Music Sides

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