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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Bill Bruford

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
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
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
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
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
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Approach Piano Pieces Writing
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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Bills Finished Listen Play
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
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
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
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
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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Great Things Information Players Question Way
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
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
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

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