I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. — Derek Bailey Business Copy Share Image
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. — Derek Bailey Circumstances Copy Share Image
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. — Derek Bailey Fine Copy Share Image
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has.… — Derek Bailey Active Copy Share Image
In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now… — Derek Bailey Facts Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians… — Derek Bailey Beginners Copy Share Image
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the… — Derek Bailey Difficult Copy Share Image
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music… — Derek Bailey Found Copy Share Image
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. — Derek Bailey Middle Copy Share Image
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or… — Derek Bailey Characteristics Copy Share Image
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. — Derek Bailey Currents Copy Share Image
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey Adapted Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind… — Derek Bailey Approach Copy Share Image
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history… — Derek Bailey Charlie Copy Share Image
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. — Derek Bailey Absence Copy Share Image
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the… — Derek Bailey Found Copy Share Image
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening. — Derek Bailey Communication Copy Share Image
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. — Derek Bailey Always Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Accessibility Copy Share Image
