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 BRUFORDSecond edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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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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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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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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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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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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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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So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
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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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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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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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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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