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Stephen Bruner Biography

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Stephen Bruner is an artist whose identity and professional category are not yet clearly defined. His life experience and contributions are limited in available information, and his impact and evaluation are difficult to determine.

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“When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.”

Play Musician Ears

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“As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.”

Use Skills Tools Decided Songwriting Bass

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“You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.”

Knows Kind Use Purpose Can Do Brain Break Car Beats Window Instruments Surface All Kinds Nails Hammers Bass Armor Crutches

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“I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!”

Firsts Remember First Time Teeth Chairs Bass Swallowing

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“I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.”

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“Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Impact Jazz Translate Improvising Big Impact Playing Jazz

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“I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!”

Important Moments Culture Realizing Chance Drink Intense Waitress

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“I couldn't tell how many times I've been to Japan off the top of my head, I just have a few standout moments that were very defining and inspirational at different parts of my life. As far as moving there, I don't know. That's a tall order there. I feel there's people that go so far as to do that, and good for them, but I just can't. For me it's not a misplaced passion or a weird infatuation - it's more like I've just had a good chance to realize how immensely their art has affected our American culture, and I don't take it for granted. I've got a very big appreciation.”

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“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.”

People Different Moments Serious Caught Up Infatuation

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“I think anytime you set out to start doing something, it's always a difficult thing. It's a theory of a blank sheet of paper, for an artist; It's a challenge to put yourself in that position in life, and even in your mind, to put the two together. But you have to, and so that's what you do. I tend to look at it as less than a problem than a process.”

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