Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Frippis an English guitarist, composer and record producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 May 1946
moved simple
So, on that simple recognition, this is who we are, everything changes, you are in a different world. You moved out from the basement.
describing fail inherent itself piece quality
You have to find a way of recognizing and describing the quality inherent in the music. If you fail to do that, then the piece itself is compromised.
music audience ifs
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
forgiveness mistake what-is-forgiveness
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
music wine silence
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
rewards privilege musician
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 confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes unreal.
love-is creative despair
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
wine broken silence
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
musical facts language
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
available
Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.
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.
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.
stuck materials can-do
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
music-is
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.