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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.

Bill Bruford

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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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Bills Finished
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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Hard
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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Sides
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
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
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 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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Scotch Sweet
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 Overlook
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
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 Two
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 Tricks Uniqueness
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End Privacy Whole
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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Drummer
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 Players Way
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Awful
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Approach Piano Pieces

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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