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Robert Fripp

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Robert Fripp
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 16
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Motivational Speaker
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Songwriter
Wimborne Minster
Dorset
Truth
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Conscience
Freedom

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My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
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Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
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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.
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My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
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Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
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If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
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The science is in knowing the art in perceiving.
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