Derek Bailey quotes

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. (Derek Bailey)
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. View quote
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. View quote
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. View quote
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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. View quote
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Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. View quote
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing. View quote
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. View quote
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Nowadays, I really like playing in studios. View quote
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For me, Company is still the best way for me to work. View quote
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In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. (Derek Bailey)
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. View quote
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I am reactive. View quote
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Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. View quote
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I don't research anything. View quote
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I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing. View quote
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Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area. View quote
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them. View quote
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But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. View quote
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For me, playing is about playing with other people. View quote
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I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. (Derek Bailey)
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody but I've used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. View quote
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