All Derek Bailey Quotes
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
Derek Bailey
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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 of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey
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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 I do in their area.
Derek Bailey
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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. It loses its point playing solo.
Derek Bailey
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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 and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
Derek Bailey
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Derek Bailey
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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Derek Bailey
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Derek Bailey
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I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
Derek Bailey
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
Derek Bailey
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
Derek Bailey
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
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