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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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, you use all... →

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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 a band in the sense of... →

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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 the... →

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