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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

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
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
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
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
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
We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality – the broader picture, if you will.
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Broader Importance Overlook Picture Will
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Remember Rocks Sex
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
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Best Gigs Practices Shapes
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 practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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Drummer Guy Reading Rocks
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
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
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
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
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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