And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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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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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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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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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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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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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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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So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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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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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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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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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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I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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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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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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