If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
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,… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown -… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
