Fred Frith Quotes

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• Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
• I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
• If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
• I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material…
• 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…
• 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…
• There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
• 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…
• The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly…
• 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…
• I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
• As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
• Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
• 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 as…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

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