Robert Fripp

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

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell…

— Robert Fripp

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of…

— Robert Fripp

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the…

— Robert Fripp

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

— Robert Fripp

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market…

— Robert Fripp

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

— Robert Fripp

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

— Robert Fripp

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no.…

— Robert Fripp

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

— Robert Fripp

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

— Robert Fripp

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

— Robert Fripp

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

— Robert Fripp

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

— Robert Fripp

That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean,…

— Robert Fripp

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

— Robert Fripp

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view…

— Robert Fripp

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

— Robert Fripp

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for…

— Robert Fripp

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

— Robert Fripp

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable…

— Robert Fripp

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and…

— Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

— Robert Fripp

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

— Robert Fripp

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

— Robert Fripp