"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it……" — Derek Bailey
"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 don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."
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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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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…
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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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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
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