Robert Fripp Quotes
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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
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We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.
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The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
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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?
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Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
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Beginner's luck is great for beginners.
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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.
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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.
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There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.
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Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
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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.
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What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
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Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.
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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.
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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
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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.
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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.
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My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
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The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.
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Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
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However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
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My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
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The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.
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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
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Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
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The aim is freedom conscience and truth
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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.
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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.
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