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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.

Bill Bruford

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
BILL BRUFORD

Helpful Style Weakness
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
BILL BRUFORD

Figures Hearing Something
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
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
BILL BRUFORD

Best Gigs Practices Shapes
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.
BILL BRUFORD

Indifferent People Surrounding Yourself
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
BILL BRUFORD

Drummer Guy Reading Rocks
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
BILL BRUFORD

Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
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.
BILL BRUFORD

Musician Remember Two Writing
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.
BILL BRUFORD

Country Different Guy Hard
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 don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
BILL BRUFORD

Drug Remember Rocks Sex
We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality – the broader picture, if you will.
BILL BRUFORD

Broader Importance Overlook Picture Will
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.
BILL BRUFORD

Great Things Information Players Question Way
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
BILL BRUFORD

Home Phones Practice
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
BILL BRUFORD

Areas Rhythm Rooms
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 BRUFORD

Ability Drummer Ideas Strong

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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