Hoover Quote by Robert Fripp

“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.'”

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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

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

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

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

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

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We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

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

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

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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

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

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

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

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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

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Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

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