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Derek Bailey

"For me, playing is about playing with other people."

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"For me, playing is about playing with other people."

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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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"For me, Company is still the best way for me to work."
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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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"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."
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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 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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