Derek Bailey People 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.