The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape. Bill Bruford More Quotes by Bill Bruford More Quotes From Bill Bruford The piano is kind of my second instrument. Bill Bruford instruments piano kind This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses. Bill Bruford helpful style weakness At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy. Bill Bruford privacy want people I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do. Bill Bruford phones practice home I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. Bill Bruford acoustic-music acoustics play 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 So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. Bill Bruford holes classic technique We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol. Bill Bruford awful alcohol fear I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out. Bill Bruford drummer strong ideas 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 in-the-past whatever anything past 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 you building i-can house 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 fast some done enough 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 challenge find bus play 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 late guy sound mean 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 rock nervous jazz happy 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 me permanent hot remember
