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Robert Fripp (Musician)

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

— Robert Fripp

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

— Robert Fripp failure

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

— Robert Fripp life

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 art

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

— Robert Fripp listening

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

— Robert Fripp man

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

— Robert Fripp want

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 love

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

— Robert Fripp music

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

— Robert Fripp music

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 art

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 time

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 time

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 identity

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 responsibility

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 music

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 you

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 music

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

— Robert Fripp you

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

— Robert Fripp art

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 music

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

— Robert Fripp life

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 music

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 rain

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 music

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