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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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• And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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• At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

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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 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 don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.

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• I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

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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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• 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 I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.

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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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• My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

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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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• 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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• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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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.

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Bill Bruford (27)

Birth:	17th May, 1949
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Drummer, Record Producer, Songwriter

About

Bill Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring drummer for Genesis in 1976. Following his departure from Yes and at various times until 1997, Bruford was the drummer for progressive rock band King Crimson.

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