Fred Frith

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 win us any friends. ↗

— Fred Frith

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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 as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. ↗

— Fred Frith

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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. ↗

— Fred Frith

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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. ↗

— Fred Frith

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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

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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 material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

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I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. ↗

— Fred Frith

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

— Fred Frith

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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. ↗

— Fred Frith

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

— Fred Frith

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