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Fred Frith

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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Amber Hurdle

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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Amber Hurdle

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

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Amber Hurdle

"In my view a jazz musician is a great musician."

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

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Fred Frith
"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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Fred Frith
"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."

Time

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Fred Frith
"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."

Life

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

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Fred Frith
"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."

Music

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

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Fred Frith
"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."

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