Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp
Robert Frippis an English guitarist, composer and record producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth16 May 1946
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Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.
play musician sound
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
everyday musician timing
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
exercise musician futility
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
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.
art maturity musician
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable. The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
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.
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
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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 do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
thinking our-world shapes
The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.
musical logic
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
want unnecessary unlikely
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.