Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
BILL BRUFORDThe best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
More Bill Bruford Quotes
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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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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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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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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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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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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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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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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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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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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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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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 piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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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