List of Fred Frith Quotes

There's An Awful Lot Of Resources That Can Be Drawn Upon In An Improvised Music Concert.

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.

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 Clear One Way Or Another.

I Started Getting Interested In The Notes That I Could Hear Being Generated When I Hammered On While Playing A Classical Guitar.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 Much To Do With Your Body As It Does With Vocabulary And Grammar.