Thinking about the past Quotes by Frank Fairfield

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

— Frank Fairfield

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

— Frank Fairfield

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

— Frank Fairfield

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

— Frank Fairfield

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being…

— Frank Fairfield

There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It…

— Frank Fairfield

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music,…

— Frank Fairfield

No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of…

— Frank Fairfield

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head…

— Frank Fairfield

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

— Frank Fairfield

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

— Frank Fairfield

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

— Frank Fairfield

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

— Frank Fairfield

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing…

— Frank Fairfield

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

— Frank Fairfield