Bill Bruford's story is not just for drummers. It is for all artists, musicians, music lovers, or anyone who wonders what it s really like to spend your life trying to make the music you love. - Neil Peart, Rush
Bill Bruford's autobiography is a frequently hilarious recounting of his long life in progressive rock and jazz. Defying every drummer joke you ve ever heard, he writes successfully from inside the music . - David Fricke, Rolling Stone
Bruford's autobiography not only provides a humorous insight into the daily detail of a successful musician's life but also grapples with the big existential issues of what it takes to be an artist of any sort in the modern world - David Sinclair, The Guardian
Professorial in its remit and written with a bone-dry wit and an authoritative elegance that will be the envy of many far more high-profile cultural commentators, this might just end up becoming one of the best-informed, most informative textbooks of its time - Marco Rossi, Shindig
An engaging and dryly witty style that makes for an easy, can't-put-it-down read...This book addresses matters anecdotal, technical, practical, emotional and philosophical with style, panache and élan -John Kelman, All About Jazz
Head and shoulders above the majority of books in its class - Jeff Miers, Buffalo News
Bruford is a literate biographer and honest - Steven Rosen, Curled up With a Good Book
It's frank, cynical, very amusing, inspiring, thought provoking and highly recommended - Brent Keefe, Drummer Magazine
Bill Bruford's autobiography is one of the most original books you ll ever come across, penned by a man that some would still label a rock star - Adam Garrie, usaprogmusic.com
The most extraordinary autobiography I've ever read on music - David Etheridge, Performing Musician
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