Quotes from Frank Fairfield

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.

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.

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

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.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

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.

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.

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