Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Frippis an English guitarist, composer and record producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 May 1946
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.
morning views concern-for-others
I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.
men average usa
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
kings play crimson
When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.
thinking people facts
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
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.
doors expectations moments
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
inspirational mistake
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
mean creating states
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
exercise musician futility
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
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.
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.
simple years economy-today
What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.