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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. And clearly the ones who wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-didn-t-write-any-music-at-all-and-then-i-remember-jon-anderson/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-didn-t-write-any-music-at-all-and-then-i-remember-jon-anderson-2/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

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## More by Bill Bruford

> [We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/we-used-to-drink-an-awful-lot-of-alcohol/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/the-best-practice-you-can-get-is-on-the-bandstand-but-in-between-gigs/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/if-it-s-fast-no-i-don-t-have-enough-piano-technique-in-that-case-it-s/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/but-what-i-think-my-emphasis-is-is-on-the-fact-that-i-like-music-a-lot/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/at-the-end-of-the-whole-day-of-working-with-people-you-want-some/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/entertainment-is-about-telling-everybody-that-everything-is-alright/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/whatever-i-have-come-to-offer-i-have-come-to-offer-and-it-may-or-may/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/sometimes-i-had-to-room-with-tony-kaye-and-that-was-awful/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-mean-chris-is-i-m-sure-a-wonderful-guy-but-in-those-days-he-also/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-warm-naturally-to-the-drummer-whose-ideas-and-approach-are-strong/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/we-were-from-totally-different-social-backgrounds-this-is-what-is/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [The piano is kind of my second instrument.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/the-piano-is-kind-of-my-second-instrument/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/holding-on-to-some-of-your-uniqueness-is-the-trick-instead-of/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-don-t-really-remember-a-whole-lot-of-sex-drugs-and-rock-n-roll/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

> [I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bruford/i-have-been-steadily-exchanging-a-rock-audience-who-were-nervous/)

[Bill Bruford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bruford/)

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