Frank Fairfield Quotes
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The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
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There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.
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I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.
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I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
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I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.
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I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.
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I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.
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I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.
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I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.
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I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.
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Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.
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Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.
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I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.
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I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.
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I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.
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Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.
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I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.
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For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.
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I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.
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Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.
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You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.
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I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.
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No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.
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Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.
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Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
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I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.
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