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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Classic Holes Technique
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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Country Different Guy Hard
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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Ability Drummer Ideas Strong
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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Indifferent People Surrounding Yourself
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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Bills Finished Listen Play
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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Entertainment Music Sides
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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Broader Importance Overlook Picture Will
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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Drummer Guy Reading Rocks
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Alcohol Awful Fear
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
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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Musician Remember Two Writing
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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Adding Harmony Learnt More Provided Rugged
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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Emphasis Facts Lot Thinking

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

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