Derek Bailey Quotes

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I associate creativity with independent music.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.