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Derek Bailey

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

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

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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

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"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."

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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

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"The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis."

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"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."
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"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."
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"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
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"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."
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"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."
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"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."
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"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much."
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"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
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"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
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"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."
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