"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory……" — Derek Bailey

"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much."

— Derek Bailey

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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…
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the…
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other…
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about…
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of…
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays…
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and…
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
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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