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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

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
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
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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Great Things Information Players Question Way
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano

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