Bill Bruford Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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