Top 60 Robert Fripp Sayings
#1. Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Brian Eno
#2. I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.
Annie E. Clark
#3. I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.
St. Vincent
#4. More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers
#5. Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Robert Fripp
#6. In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Robert Fripp
#7. A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp
#8. Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.
Robert Fripp
#9. When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.
Robert Fripp
#10. The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
Robert Fripp
#11. I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
Robert Fripp
#12. Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
Robert Fripp
#13. There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Robert Fripp
#14. Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
Robert Fripp
#15. My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
Robert Fripp
#16. The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Robert Fripp
#17. Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Robert Fripp
#18. Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
Robert Fripp
#19. I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
Robert Fripp
#20. The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.
Robert Fripp
#21. To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
Robert Fripp
#22. Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
Robert Fripp
#23. Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
Robert Fripp
#24. Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
Robert Fripp
#25. If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
Robert Fripp
#26. So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
Robert Fripp
#27. And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
Robert Fripp
#28. If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
Robert Fripp
#29. What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
Robert Fripp
#30. The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.
Robert Fripp
#31. Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Robert Fripp
#32. Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.
Robert Fripp
#33. According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp
#34. My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
Robert Fripp
#35. We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.
Robert Fripp
#36. Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
Robert Fripp
#37. I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
Robert Fripp
#38. However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
Robert Fripp
#40. Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
Robert Fripp
#41. The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.
Robert Fripp
#42. The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
Robert Fripp
#43. Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
Robert Fripp
#44. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Robert Fripp
#46. If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
Robert Fripp
#47. But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Robert Fripp
#49. Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
Robert Fripp
#50. I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'
Robert Fripp
#51. Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
Robert Fripp
#52. Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.
Robert Fripp
#53. Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.
Robert Fripp
#54. Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.
Robert Fripp
#55. Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
Robert Fripp
#56. In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
Robert Fripp
#57. The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
Robert Fripp
#58. Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
Robert Fripp
#59. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
#60. When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.
Robert Fripp
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