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22 quotes by Fred Frith

Fred Frith, Mœrs festival, 2010 Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek...
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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... →

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

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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... →

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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 that, but... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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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 it were, and it has the... →

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

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

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

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