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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.

Bill Bruford

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
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
So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Classic Holes Technique
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
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
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
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
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
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
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Alcohol Awful Fear
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
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
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
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
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 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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