Fred Frith Quotes

Fred Frith — English Composer born on February 17, 1949,

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor... (wikipedia)

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 we don't do that any more.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fred Frith Quotes

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