Derek Bailey Quotes
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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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy;but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappines, of other? I’d do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happines. That’s what’s at the heart of my music.
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To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
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Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.
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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
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Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.
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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.
