The piano is kind of my second instrument.
BILL BRUFORDWe can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality – the broader picture, if you will.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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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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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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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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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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So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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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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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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Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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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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