Robert Fripp Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.”

“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.”

“But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.”

“If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.”

“Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.”

“The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.”

“Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.”

“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.”