"I think playing solo is a second rate……" — Derek Bailey
"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."
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27 Quotes by Derek Bailey
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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…
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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…
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Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other…
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Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about…
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
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In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of…
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But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays…
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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…
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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…
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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