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Fred Frith

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

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

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"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."

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"Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young."

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"Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things."

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"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

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"The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now."

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"If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now."

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"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now."

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"This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign."

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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well."
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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."
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"Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them."
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"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
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"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."
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