Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.” — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society –… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. — Robert Fripp Copy Share
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. — Robert Fripp Copy Share
That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities… — Robert Fripp Copy Share
