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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Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.
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I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
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I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
