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I am reactive.

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

Free improvisation, in additi...

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 44 quotes

Personally, I've found that t...

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 44 quotes

Undeniably, the audience for ...

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 44 quotes

But that methodology where pl...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

In fact its quite gratifying ...

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 44 quotes

If you could only play a reco...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

Diversity is its most consist...

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 44 quotes

I've always liked the effect ...

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

I think playing solo is a sec...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

Free improvisation, in additi...

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.

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In the absence of that, I am ...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

In fact it's quite gratifying...

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 44 quotes

Even if it is difficult playi...

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 44 quotes

Younger players in this music...

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

I think the blues is fine for...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

I'm not much into current ele...

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

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

Personally, I've found one of...

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 44 quotes

I have always been attracted ...

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Derek Bailey 44 quotes

I wouldn't want to be ideolog...

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 44 quotes

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