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

Robert Fripp

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Robert Fripp
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 16
Composer
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Jazz Guitarist
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Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
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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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If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
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Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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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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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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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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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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