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Playing Quotes by Derek Bailey
- 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.
- I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
- 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 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…
- Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
- 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.…
- For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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