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 being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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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 same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.
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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 Quote

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 Quote

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never.
- Fred Frith Quote

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.
- Fred Frith Quote

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
- Fred Frith Quote

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.
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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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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.
- Fred Frith Quote

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.
- Fred Frith Quote

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
- Fred Frith Quote