Frith Quotes

#1. Love and help others unconditionally without expectation you are creating in effect, this creation will multiply for you in a million ways.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless: Change Your Life

Ana M Frith

#2. There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Richard Adams

#3. Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is - or so they taught me - that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task

Richard Adams

#4. You may think it's a wonderful thing to be saved by Lord Frith in his power. How many rabbits has that happened to, I wonder? But I tell you, it was far more frightening than being chased by the Efrafans.

Richard Adams

#5. Everything comes to you when you ready. If it did not come to you then know that you not yet ready, build yourself to it.
Ana Maria Frith, from: Limitless: Change Your Life

Ana M Frith

#6. My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

John Zorn

#7. God had saved him from the fish cellar and that could only mean one thing. He had more work to do. (John Frith, p.64)

Brenda Rickman Vantrease

#8. BE LIMITLESS,
CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
UNFOLD YOUR POTENTIAL,
BECOME YOUR OWN LIGHT,
ABILITY OF POSSIBILITY.

Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life Book

Ana M Frith

#9. Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.

Richard Adams

#10. Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Fred Frith

#11. 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.

Fred Frith

#12. 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.

Fred Frith

#13. a baby boy was born on January 30, 1882. "At a quarter to nine

Margaret Frith

#14. 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.

Fred Frith

#15. I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Fred Frith

#16. 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.

Fred Frith

#17. The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

Fred Frith

#18. 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.

Fred Frith

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.

Kerry Frith

#22. Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

Fred Frith

#23. 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.

Fred Frith

#24. 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.

Fred Frith

#25. 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

#26. Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America itself, is a history of class struggle--the struggle for fun.

Simon Frith

#27. 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.

Fred Frith

#28. I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Fred Frith

#29. If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

Fred Frith

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

Fred Frith

#31. Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

#32. There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Fred Frith

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

Fred Frith

#34. 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.

Fred Frith

#35. Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

Fred Frith

#36. If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

Fred Frith