Top 27 Quotes by Bill Bruford

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.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.