#music

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

#art #being #debates #downtown #ends

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

— Fred Frith

#i #improvised #intuition #involves #like

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

#candy #context #doing #during #enjoyed

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

#dialogue #discovering #every #every time #everything

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#appear #believe #care #commit #contracts

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me. ↗

— John Frusciante

#appreciate #as far as #being #far #gold

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. ↗

— John Frusciante

#before #even #feelings #had #i

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. ↗

— John Frusciante

#endeavor #i #into #involved #music

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. ↗

— John Frusciante

#doing #i #i write #kind #music

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now. ↗