No musician insisted so emphatically and unbreakably on the indivisibility of music and life as Derek Bailey. Many consider him the most radical figure in music of the last half-century, but in many ways he was also the most conservative in that he saw the function of music as it was perhaps originally intended - that is, a natural development from conversation and interaction between humans, a shorthand for complex emotional expression for which words and gestures alone weren’t sufficient, a way of relating to another human being, the formation of human networks of symbiotic equality; in other words, music as the ideal framework for the perfect socialist society.

Marcello Carlin skriver underbart bra om Derek Bailey.