Fred Frith famous quotes

04-19-2025

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.
-- Fred Frith

#Vocabulary #Doe #Body
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
-- Fred Frith

#Thinking #Trios #Quartets
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
-- Fred Frith

#Strive
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.
-- Fred Frith

#Football #Laughing #Balls
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.
-- Fred Frith

#Records #Way #Imagine
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.
-- Fred Frith

#Views #Interesting #Perspective
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
-- Fred Frith

#Awful #Resources #Concerts
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.
-- Fred Frith

#Song #Play #Different
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 things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
-- Fred Frith

#Years #Firsts #Musician
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 that I'm working with.
-- Fred Frith

#Thinking #Influence #Composer
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
-- Fred Frith

#Song #Writing #Ideas
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
-- Fred Frith

#Memories #Writing #Association
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
-- Fred Frith

#Intuition #Instinct
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
-- Fred Frith

#Kids #Thinking #Wells

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