The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
BILL BRUFORDOne 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.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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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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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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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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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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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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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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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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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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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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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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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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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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