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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Could Dialogue Discovering Every Every Time Everything First First Time Known Learned Musicians Over Resources Say Technical Things Time Years You

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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

Topics: Any Been Business Gravity Me More Old Old Songs Out Parts Performing Songs Speechless Through Writing

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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Band Could Couple Felt First First Time Gigs Group Played Really Sense Some Something Switzerland Time Weeks Write

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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

Topics: Different Improvise Just Kinds Languages Melodic Music Out Play Shut Songs Things Use You

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

~Fred Frith

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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Always Any Everyday Everyday Life Examine Feeling Good Great Interesting Keeps Life Maybe Perspective Point Point Of View Refuse Them Things View

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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Ability Another Beyond Clear Component Fairly Imagine One Way Parts Record Start Totality Way Working You

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Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

~Fred Frith

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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Because Candy Context Doing Enjoyed Film Go Like Locations Logic Machine Music One Of The Things Own Particularly Pieces Raw Sound Taking Them Things Totally Unnecessary Which Within Writing

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

~Fred Frith

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Composer

Born: February 17th, 1949

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