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

I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Drug Rocks
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Approach Piano Pieces
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 Two
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
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
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
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 used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Awful
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
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 Rocks
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
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
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
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

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
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
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Awful Rooms Sometimes