Frank Fairfield Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.