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Concert Quote by Fred Frith

“Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.” quote by Fred Frith — Download Open image

“Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.”

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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,…

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Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really…

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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…

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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the…

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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown -…

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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…

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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with…

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I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

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When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

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I have fond memories of our concert performances.

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There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the…

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At a concert sometimes, I get very emotional singing 'Tadap tadap ke.'

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If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right…

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There's always an after-party after a concert. You have to go.

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The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the…

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It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as…

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I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls…

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You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You…

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