Derek Bailey Quotes
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
