Derek Bailey English Musician Quotations

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.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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

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.

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.

The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.