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 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 way past thinking 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 knowing play years 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 singing guy together I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess. Frank Fairfield likes guy song 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 gin kind night I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. Frank Fairfield obscure play song 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-music too-much drinking 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 people years art 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-music music-is art 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 made people art 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 upset mean way 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-known music-is real 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-up real race I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music. Frank Fairfield corporate feels people I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art. Frank Fairfield cooking art thinking 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-music serious thinking 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 upset trying people I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy. Frank Fairfield feelings people thinking 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 groups bigs teaching
