English - Musician | January 29, 1932 - December 25, 2005
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Derek Bailey
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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.
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For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am reactive.
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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
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I don't research anything.
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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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I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
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