Derek Bailey Quotes

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I don't research anything.