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Derek Bailey

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

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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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"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."
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"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much."
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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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"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
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"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
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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 like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
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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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"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."
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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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