Bill Bruford Quotes

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• We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
• This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
• Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
• At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
• Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
• 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…
• I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
• The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
• I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
• 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…
• So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
• And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
• 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…
• But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
• 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…
• I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
• I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
• If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
• My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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