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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Body Does Find Grammar Language Learning Like Much Out Speak Until Vocabulary Who You Your Your Body

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

~Fred Frith

Topics: Developing Improvised Intuition Involves Like Lot Music

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

~Fred Frith

Topics: Going How Idea Songs Sound Write You

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

~Fred Frith

Topics: Associated Associations Because Habits Memories Mouse Psychological Write I Write

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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

Topics: Any Certain Changed Exactly Friends Our Perception Period Politics Result Self-Righteous Things Think Through Us Win Zealous I Think

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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

Topics: Composer Extent Influences Material Me Most One Of The Things Reconstruct Things Think Working I Think I Can

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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Alone Ball Costumes Dressed Even Football France Friends Hard Kick Laughing Peculiar Playing Remember Some Stand Stand Up Up I Remember

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

~Fred Frith

Topics: Anything Know Put Striving Words I Can

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

~Fred Frith

Topics: Comfortable Improviser Now Pretty Thinking Up Working

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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.

~Fred Frith

Topics: Around Art Being Debates Downtown Ends Get Having Kinds Labels Many Music Noise Other Out People Progressive Really Rock Stay Story Struggle Stuck Tell Up You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Composer

Born: February 17th, 1949

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