37 Quotes by Fred Frith

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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