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Robert Fripp
English
Musician
Born:
May 16
,
1946
Band
Life
Mistake
Music
Quality
You
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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp
Forgiveness
Mistake
Unacceptable
Rarely
Always
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'
Robert Fripp
Life
Love
Music
You
Unless
Tell
Recommend
Plumber
Something
Students
Sell
Them
Really
Your
Useful
Professional
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
Robert Fripp
Unlikely
Unnecessary
Possible
Expensive
Want
Necessary
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
Time
Quality
Will
First
Assume
Innocence
First Time
Artistry
Experiencing
Capacity
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp
Today
Man
Attention Span
Minutes
Attention
According
America
Span
Length
Average
USA
USA Today
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
Robert Fripp
You
Band
Pulse
Once
Several
Definitely
Rigid
Reference
Common
Playing
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.
Robert Fripp
You
People
Band
Action
Group
Members
Possible
Thousands
Thousands Of People
See
Course
Within
Deal
How
Expect
Expectations
Manage
Cannot
Next
Persuade
Even
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
Music
Worlds
Say
Several
Would
More
Simultaneously
Sophisticated
Conceptual
However
Exists
Modern
Act
View
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
Robert Fripp
Quality
Listening
Our
Say
Hear
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.
Robert Fripp
Music
Quality
World
Master
Apprentice
Does
Hear
Hears
Yes
Which
Then
Lives
Present
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
Robert Fripp
You
Stuck
Material
Repertoire
Huge
Huge Amounts
Amount
Playing
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
Robert Fripp
Perception
Part
Audience
Hear
Going
Interesting
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Robert Fripp
Language
Musical
Possible
Restrained
Fact
Spoken
Very
Representation
In Fact
Form
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
Robert Fripp
Me
Heart
Jazz
Musical
Kit
Acoustic
Bill
Playing
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
You
King
First
Crimson
Definition
Would
King Crimson
Point
Never
He
Knew
Name
Know
Drummer
Cover
Michael
Maybe
Either
Then
Many
Agree
Agreed
Things
Album
Album Cover
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
You
Responsibility
King
Expectation
Own
Enormous
Crimson
King Crimson
Weight
Attending
Concert
Accept
Accepts
Audience
Tangible
Tradition
Which
Now
My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
Robert Fripp
Life
My Life
Interviews
Since
Doing
Improved
Stopped
Much
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