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" Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. "
Solo
Great
Kind
" For me, Company is still the best way for me to work. "
Me
Way
Work
" For me, playing is about playing with other people. "
Me
Playing
People
" I am reactive. "
I Am
Reactive
Am
" I don't research anything. "
Research
Anything
" I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. "
Business
Been
Always
" I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing. "
Songs
Sing
Like
" I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. "
Think
Stuff
Much
" 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. "
Me
See
People
" In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. "
Play
I Am Happy
Think
" I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. "
Solo
Think
Me
" I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. "
Me
Never
Sense
" I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. "
Somebody
Idea
Going
" 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. "
Way
Kind
Music
" Nowadays, I really like playing in studios. "
Playing
Like
Nowadays
" Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. "
Kind
People
Way
" 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. "
Like
Playing
Kind
" Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. "
Playing
Circumstances
Music
" Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them. "
Doing
Them
Solo
" Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. "
Turn
Players
Out
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