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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."

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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Donna Grant

"A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily."

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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."

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Derek Bailey
"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."

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

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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."

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Derek Bailey
"I don't research anything."

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Derek Bailey
"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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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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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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Derek Bailey
"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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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."

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