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

  Robert Fripp

  Exercise, Musician, Futility

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• The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

  Robert Fripp

  Stupid, Blow, People

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• 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.

  Robert Fripp

  Discipline, Creative, Quality

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• What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

  Robert Fripp

  Want, Unnecessary, Unlikely

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• Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

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  Hard Work, Artist, Hard

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• 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

  Quality, Firsts, Innocence

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• The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

  Robert Fripp

  Art, Knowing

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• I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.

  Robert Fripp

  Hero, Blow, Winning

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• There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

  Robert Fripp

  Differences, Pulse, Band

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• Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

  Robert Fripp

  Luck, Beginners

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• According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

  Robert Fripp

  Men, Average, Usa

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• The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

  Robert Fripp

  Play, Musician, Sound

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• 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?

  Robert Fripp

  Sleep, Play, Symphony

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• Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

  Robert Fripp

  Music Is

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• Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Wine, Silence

  "The Vinyl Solution". Musician, Player, and Listener, No. 24, April/May 1980.

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• 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.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Names, Firsts

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• Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

  Robert Fripp

  Available

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• 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

  Views, World, Sophisticated

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• Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

  Robert Fripp

  Musical, Logic

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

  Robert Fripp

  Stuck, Materials, Can Do

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• 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.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Mean, Feelings

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• The aim is freedom conscience and truth

  Robert Fripp

  Aim, Conscience

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• 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

  Different, Orchestra, Railway Station

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• 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.

  Robert Fripp

  Training, Adults, Attention

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• 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

  Philosophical, Views, Profound

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