Derek Bailey Quotes

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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect…
• Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect…
• Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
• I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
• In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so…
• But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…
• If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
• 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…
• Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
• For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
• 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…
• 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'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
• I don't research anything.
• Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
• Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

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