Quotes by Derek Bailey - Page 1

I am reactive.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
I Am Am
Reactive
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I don't research anything.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Research
Anything
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Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Studios
Nowadays
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For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Best Way
Company
Stills
Way
Best Work Me
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Concerts
Murder
Solo
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Duos
Song
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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Cottages
Industry
Sides
Cottage
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Circumstances
Playing Music
Susceptible
Theory
Affect
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Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
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Middle
Player
Young
Aged
Younger
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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 / Guitarist
Absence
Comparison
Play
Solo
Thinking
I Am I Am Happy Happy
I Am Happy I Am Happy
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I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Fine
Made
Player
Thinking
Blues
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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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Listening
Play
Records
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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Electronics
Stuff
Thinking
Current
Electronic
Lounge
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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 / Guitarist
Effect
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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 / Guitarist
Activity
People
Rate
Solo
Thinking
Me People Think
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But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
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Adapted
Methodology
Player
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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 non-musicians.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Children
Crafts
Musical
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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.
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Pieces
Sometimes
Used
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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.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Facts
People
Use
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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 / Guitarist
Method
Me People See
Gratifying
In Fact
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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 / Guitarist
Areas
Found
Kind
Personally
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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 / Guitarist
Kind
Loses
People
Solo
Sometimes
Great Difficult People
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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 / Guitarist
Approach
Being The Best
Best Way
Ideological
Thinking
Want
Way
Best Music Way
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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 person or persons playing it.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Music
Diversity
Identity
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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 / Guitarist
Moving
Particular
People
Way
Work Free People
Stimulating
Improvised
Particular Way
Personally
Recent
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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 / Guitarist
Music
Degrees
Intimacy
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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 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.
Derek Bailey / Guitarist
Music
Children
Skills
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