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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Bill Bruford

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
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
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
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
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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Bills Drummer Fabulous
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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Acoustic Acoustics Music Play
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
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
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
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Remember Rocks Sex
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
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
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
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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