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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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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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 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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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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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 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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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.
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Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
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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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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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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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