Bill Bruford famous quotes

03-28-2025

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
-- Bill Bruford

#Alcohol #Awful #Drink
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
-- Bill Bruford

#Rooms #Rhythm
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

#Sweet #Scotch #People
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
-- Bill Bruford

#Thinking #Facts #Emphasis
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

#Writing #Two #Musician
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
-- Bill Bruford

#Sex #Rocks #Drug
I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
-- Bill Bruford

#Play #Bills
If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.
-- Bill Bruford

#Hearing #Figures
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
-- Bill Bruford

#Hands #Harmony #Made
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
-- Bill Bruford

#Technique #Classic #Holes
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

#Usa #Guy #Different
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
-- Bill Bruford

#Style #Weakness #Helpful
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
-- Bill Bruford

#Bills #Fabulous #Drummer
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
-- Bill Bruford

#People #Want #Privacy
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
-- Bill Bruford

#Fear #Awful #Rooms
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

#Essence #Discipline #Sound
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
-- Bill Bruford

#Home #Practice #Phones
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
-- Bill Bruford

#Practice #Shapes #Gigs
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
-- Bill Bruford

#Play #Acoustic Music #Acoustics
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
-- Bill Bruford

#Piano #Kind #Instruments

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