About Robert Fripp: Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
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.
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 host...
My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
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.'
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
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?
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.
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.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
