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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. — 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
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
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 Image
