Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that … - Derek Bailey

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I think [G. W. ] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

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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Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

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If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

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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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