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Fred Frith, born on February 17, 1949, is an accomplished composer whose works span a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, classical, and experimental music. Known for his unique musical language and cross-genre creative approach, Frith has had a profound impact on the contemporary music scene.

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Famous Fred Frith Quotes

“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.”

Doe Body Speak Language Who You Are Your Body Vocabulary Grammar Learning Language

Author:Fred Frith

“...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!”

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Author:Fred Frith

“If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.”

Ifs Writing Mean Use Home Would Be Fall Stuff Sitting Fingers Guitar

Author:Fred Frith

“I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.”

Notes Guitar Hammered Classical Guitar

Author:Fred Frith

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

Instinct Intuition Developing

Author:Fred Frith

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

Writing Memories Habit Psychological Association Mice

Author:Fred Frith

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

Ifs Writing Ideas Song Sound Corny

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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.”

Thinking I Can Influence Materials Composer Reconstruction

Author:Fred Frith

“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.”

Ifs Years Firsts Known Musician Resources First Time Dialogue Discovering

Author:Fred Frith

“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.”

Kind Different Play Use Song Language All Kinds Different Languages

Author:Fred Frith

“There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.”

Resources Awful Concerts

Author:Fred Frith

“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.”

Feelings Interesting Views Perspective Everyday Refuse Point Of View Everyday Life

Author:Fred Frith

“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.”

Way Ability Clear Records Imagine One Way Components Totality

Author:Fred Frith

“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.”

Hard Remember Laughing Football Balls France Kicks Peculiar Costumes Playing Football Laughing So Hard

Author:Fred Frith

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

Ifs Knows I Can Strive

Author:Fred Frith

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

Thinking Comfortable Quartets Trios

Author:Fred Frith

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

Thinking Wells Kids

Author:Fred Frith

About the Author

Born: February 17, 1949
Known for: Composer
Quotes: 17

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