37 Quotes by Fred Frith

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.