Frank Fairfield Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Past, Way

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Years, Play, Knowing

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Cooks, Good Cook

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Guy, Singing, Together

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

  Frank Fairfield

  Art, Thinking, Cooking

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Art, Years, People

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Art, Classical Music, Music Is

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

  Frank Fairfield

  People

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Mean, Upset, Way

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Real, Well Known, Music Is

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Real, Mash Up, Race

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Feels, Corporate

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Guy, Likes

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Together, Here And There

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Thinking, Playing Music, Serious

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Drinking, Playing Music, Too Much

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Night, Kind, Gin

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Giving, Trying

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Upset, Trying

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

  Frank Fairfield

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Church, Firsts

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Teaching, Groups, Bigs

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.

  Frank Fairfield

  Hair, Littles, Factories

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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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.

  Frank Fairfield

  Jobs, Moving, Oysters

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

  Frank Fairfield

  Song, Play, Obscure

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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