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Robert Fripp

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Robert Fripp
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 16
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Jazz Guitarist
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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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.
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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
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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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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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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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Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
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If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
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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.
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The science is in knowing the art in perceiving.
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Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
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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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Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
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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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In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
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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.
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My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
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To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
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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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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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