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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Bill Bruford

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
BILL BRUFORD

Approach Piano Pieces Writing
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
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
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
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 practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
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
So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
BILL BRUFORD

Classic Holes Technique
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
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Remember Rocks Sex
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
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
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.
BILL BRUFORD

Adding Harmony Learnt More Provided Rugged
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
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole

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