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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.

Bill Bruford

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
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
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 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
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
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Remember Rocks Sex
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
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
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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Adding Harmony Learnt More Provided Rugged
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
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
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
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
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
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

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