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Famous Robert Fripp Quotes
“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.”
“According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.”
“What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.”
“To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.”
“My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.”
“My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.”
“Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.”
“Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.”
“Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.”
“The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.”
“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
“If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?”
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
“Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.”
“Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.”
“I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.”