Bill Bruford Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Bill Bruford Quotes and Sayings


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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 | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    The piano is kind of my second instrument. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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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. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF
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    Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past. Bill Bruford | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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