Quotes by Robert Fripp

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Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.
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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Robert Fripp

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

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

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

Robert Fripp

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

Robert Fripp

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

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

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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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?

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The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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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

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

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

Robert Fripp

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 thin...

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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.

Robert Fripp

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

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

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Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

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Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.

Robert Fripp

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Fripp
  • DescriptionEnglish guitarist, composer and record producer.
  • BornMay 16, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Composer; Motivational Speaker