Bill Bruford Quotes

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

I have never followed anyone's style of singing.