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Fred Frith Quotes

Fred Frith quotes

English Composer February 17, 1949

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There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. Fred Frith
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. Fred Frith
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. Fred Frith
Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen. Fred Frith
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. Fred Frith
We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. Fred Frith
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. Fred Frith
Fred Frith quote: "Well, I think music for kids is never anything but..."
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it? Fred Frith
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time. Fred Frith
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. Fred Frith
Fred Frith quote: "I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological..."
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. Fred Frith
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. Fred Frith
Fred Frith quote: "As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm..."
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. Fred Frith
Fred Frith quote: "Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like..."
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. Fred Frith
Fred Frith quote: "There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an..."
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. Fred Frith

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