But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
BILL BRUFORDAt the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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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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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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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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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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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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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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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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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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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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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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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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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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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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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