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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.

Bill Bruford

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
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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Acoustic Acoustics Music Play
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
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

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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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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