Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
BILL BRUFORDThe piano is kind of my second instrument.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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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 practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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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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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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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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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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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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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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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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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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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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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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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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