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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…
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Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or…
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Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has.…
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Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history…
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now…
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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.
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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…
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If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
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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…
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first,…
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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
— Derek Bailey
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Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.
— Harry Shearer
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
— Stan Getz
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