Fred Frith Quotes
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
Quotes to Explore
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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I play as I feel.
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
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When I'm working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I'm playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go.
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My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
