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. Frank Fairfield More Quotes by Frank Fairfield More Quotes From Frank Fairfield 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. Frank Fairfield waypastthinking Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is. Frank Fairfield singingguytogether I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess. Frank Fairfield likesguysong 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. Frank Fairfield ginkindnight I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. Frank Fairfield obscureplaysong 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. Frank Fairfield playing-musictoo-muchdrinking 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. Frank Fairfield peopleyearsart The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats. Frank Fairfield classical-musicmusic-isart Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people. Frank Fairfield people 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. Frank Fairfield madepeopleart 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. Frank Fairfield upsetmeanway 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. Frank Fairfield well-knownmusic-isreal 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. Frank Fairfield mash-uprealrace I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music. Frank Fairfield corporatefeelspeople I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art. Frank Fairfield cookingartthinking 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. Frank Fairfield playing-musicseriousthinking 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. Frank Fairfield upsettryingpeople I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy. Frank Fairfield feelingspeoplethinking I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs. Frank Fairfield churchsongfirsts 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. Frank Fairfield groupsbigsteaching
