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Music Quotes by Derek Bailey
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
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