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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.

Bill Bruford

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Approach Piano Pieces
I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Rocks
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
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 Surrounding
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
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Awful Rooms Sometimes
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Phones
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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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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Intention
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
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
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 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 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
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
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
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
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

If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.

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