Bill Bruford quotes

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart. (Bill Bruford)
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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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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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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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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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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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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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton. (Bill Bruford)
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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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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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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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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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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If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
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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. (Bill Bruford)
People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.
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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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I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
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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. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
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