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.
BILL BRUFORDI listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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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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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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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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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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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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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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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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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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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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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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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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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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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