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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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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 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.
Bill Bruford
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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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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
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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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I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
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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 arrivals and sound checks and anything.
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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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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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