Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Frippis an English guitarist, composer and record producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 May 1946
luck beginners
Beginner's luck is great for beginners.
kings mean feelings
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 of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.
sleep play symphony
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 play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
differences steps pulse
There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.
giving-up careers choices
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
training adults attention
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
hard-work artist hard
Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.
music-is
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
coffee book party
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
available
Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.
mean discipline ends
Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
musical facts language
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
discipline creative quality
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.
character voice giving
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.