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Top 25 Bill Bruford Quotes (2025 Update)

Bill Bruford Quote: “And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.”

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Bill Bruford Quote: “Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.”

3. “Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.”

4. “If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with – good, bad and indifferent. It’s extremely hard to be specific.”

5. “You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with – good, bad and indifferent. It’s extremely hard to be specific.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.”

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.”

7. “Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.”

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “Drummers haven’t managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality – the broader picture, if you will.”

9. “Drummers haven’t managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality – the broader picture, if you will.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.”

10. “We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.”

11. “Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.”

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.”

13. “I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.”

14. “This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “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.”

15. “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

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

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

17. “One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.”

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Bill Bruford Quote: “I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.”

20. “I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.”

— Bill Bruford

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

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

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.”

22. “People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “The piano is kind of my second instrument.”

23. “The piano is kind of my second instrument.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Bill Bruford Quote: “A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!”

25. “A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We’re Gonna Make You a Star.”

26. “Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We’re Gonna Make You a Star.”

— Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford Quote: “So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.”

27. “So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.”

— Bill Bruford

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