Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisellis an American guitarist, composer and arranger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth18 March 1951
CountryUnited States of America
hurt emotion kind
Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.
writing play feelings
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
player people guy
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
hate people labels
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
music littles sound
There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.
play persons
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
listening-to-others gains musician
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
school black-and-white lucky
I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.
player saxophone copying
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.
music imagination people
"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.
jazz anything-is-possible
To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.
simple trying complicated
I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.
play white people
For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
real fighting play
I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.