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  • In fact its 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.

    People   Facts   Use  
  • Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

  • I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

    Song   Duos  
  • 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.

    People   Kind   Sometimes  
  • Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

    Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
  • Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

    Player   Middle   Young  
  • I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

  • Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

    Murder   Solo   Concerts  
  • I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

    Player   Thinking   Made  
  • But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

  • Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

    Music   Children   Skills  
  • 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 have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

  • I don't research anything.

  • For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

    Way   Company   Stills  
  • Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

    Pieces   Sometimes   Used  
  • 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.

    Kind   Found   Areas  
  • If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

  • Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

    Studios  
  • Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

    Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
  • 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.

    Moving   People   Way  
  • 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.

    Thinking   Want   Way  
  • In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

    Thinking   Play   Absence  
  • I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

    Thinking   People   Solo  
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Derek Bailey

  • Born: January 29, 1930
  • Died: December 25, 2005
  • Occupation: Guitarist