Top 27 Quotes by Bill Bruford

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.

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.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

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.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

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

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.

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.

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.