Top 20 Quotes by Derek Bailey

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

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.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I don't research anything.

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.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

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.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.