“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?” IfsDoePlaySleepParticularGeniusMusicianOrchestraSymphonyChestnutsSymphony Orchestras Author:Robert Fripp
“Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.” MusicianConceptsPerformancesEverydayTiming Author:Robert Fripp
“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.” WayFirstsMeanFeelingsBigsHappensCertainEnergyQualityHappenedKingsMusicianMusic IsAmazing ThingsCrimsonTelepathyKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.” ExerciseMusicianFutility Author:Robert Fripp
“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.” GivingMadeChoicesDealsCareersGiving UpMusicianFrontline Author:Robert Fripp
“The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.” PlayGivenSoundMusicianConcern Author:Robert Fripp
“Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.” PeopleThinkingFactsMusician Author:Robert Fripp
“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.” QualityCreativeDisciplineMusicianConcernProgramRadioStationsSpeakersComponentsReceiverBroadcastingTransistors Author:Robert Fripp
“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.” ArtHappensWould BeMusicMusicianMusic IsArt IsCapacityDirectInnocentMysteriousCraftsInnocenceMaturityGuaranteesGoing To Work Author:Robert Fripp
“The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into 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 real.” MomentsAudienceMusicianStandingRewardsPrivilegeIrrelevantUnreal Author:Robert Fripp
