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Music Quotes by Robert Fripp
- Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
- Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
- Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
- I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
- 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…
- Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.
- 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…
- The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its…
- Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
- 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…
- 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…
- Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- What we hear is the quality of our listening.
- If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
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