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Bill Bruford

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."

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Donna Grant

"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."

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Donna Grant

"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."

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Donna Grant

"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."

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Donna Grant

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."

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Donna Grant

"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."

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Donna Grant

"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"

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Donna Grant

"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."

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

Music

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

Hearing

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Bill Bruford
"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."

Building

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

Practice

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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."

May

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Bill Bruford
"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."

Alcohol

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

Play

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Bill Bruford
"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."

American

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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."

Sound

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Bill Bruford
"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."

Jazz

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