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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
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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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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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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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If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
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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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What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
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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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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
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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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Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
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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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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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Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
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My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
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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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Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
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