But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.Quote by Derek Bailey
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.Quote by Derek Bailey about nation, people
I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.Quote by Derek Bailey
I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.Quote by Derek Bailey about use, people
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.Quote by Derek Bailey about affair
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.Quote by Derek Bailey about common sense, sense
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.Quote by Derek Bailey about music, being
I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.Quote by Derek Bailey
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.Quote by Derek Bailey
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.Quote by Derek Bailey about idea
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.Quote by Derek Bailey about use, being, people
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.Quote by Derek Bailey about happiness
It seems to me that the general scene that free improvisers work in now is a kind of goulash of different musics; it is much better.Quote by Derek Bailey about work