English - Composer | February 17, 1949 -
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
Fred Frith
YouSoundWriteGoingIdeaSongs
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
MemoriesWriteBecauseHabitsMouse
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.
PoliticsWinPerceptionThinkResult
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.
MeThinkI CanThingsWorkingMost
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.
AloneFootballStand UpStandHard
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
WordsI CanKnowStrivingAnything
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
ThinkingNowComfortableUpPretty
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.
MusicArtStrugglePeopleStoryYou
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.
FriendsEnoughBackFeelingI Can
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
MusicThinkNeverAnythingWell
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