top of page
Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."

People

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"I don't research anything."

Research

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"For me, playing is about playing with other people."

People

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"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."

Work

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them."

Murder

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."

Work

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business."

Business

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."

Sense

Quote_1.png
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."

People

Quote_1.png
Derek Bailey
"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."

People

bottom of page