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Fred Frith

Date of birth:	17 February 1949
Date of death:	Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin:	England
Profession:	Composer Musician
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	" All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal. "		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. "		Fred Frith

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

	" At a certain point I thought I was ready for another shot at being a composer, so that's part of what I'm learning right now. "		Fred Frith

	" Being pigeonholed can be frustrating, sure, but I think it's part of human nature to try and categorize everything, so it goes with the territory. "		Fred Frith

	" Between those and seeing Yoko Ono and John Lennon perform in Cambridge in 1969, my centre of gravity shifted to a completely different location. That's when I began dismantling telephones, and rebuilding guitar pick-ups. "		Fred Frith

	" British audiences were great - I'll never forget opening for Beefheart in Liverpool, or playing with Faust at the Rainbow in London, or our Traverse Theatre shows in Edinburgh - those were incredibly exciting times for us. "		Fred Frith

	" 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. "		Fred Frith

	" I always find it ironic that children who are gifted musically are generally first recognised because they are improvisers and experimenters, and the response to that is to make them learn how to read music and obey rules! "		Fred Frith

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

	" I even played bass with Champion Jack Dupree at one gig, which was an education. "		Fred Frith

	" I guess we have a pretty odd relationship with British musicians of our generation. "		Fred Frith

	" I had been interested in starting a band, figuring then (in 1967) that it would be some kind of blues band. "		Fred Frith

	" 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

	" I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. "		Fred Frith

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