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One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.
BILL BRUFORD

Great Things Information Players Question Way
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
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We’re Gonna Make You a Star.
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Holding Stars Tricks Uniqueness
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
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn’t quite have the ability to carry them out.
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Ability Drummer Ideas Strong
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
So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Classic Holes Technique
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Alcohol Awful Fear
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
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Discipline Essence Intention Sound
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
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
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
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
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
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Remember Rocks Sex

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

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One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

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