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Robert Fripp

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

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

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

I’m not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

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.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

To me, Bill’s musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

– Robert Fripp

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.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

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

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

If you are playing repertoire material, you’re stuck. There’s not huge amounts you can do.

– Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

– Robert Fripp

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