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born 1946 England
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist and guitar tutor, best known as leader of the band King Crimson and for his collaborations with Brian Eno.
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Normality is what we might achieve, given who we are, what we are, the conditions and limitations of the world we work within.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
I woke at 9:57 having got to bed at 6:30 subsequent to spraying burning guitar over David Bowie's new album and not leaving the studio until 5:00.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.
Act with courtesy - Otherwise, be polite, but always be kind.
It is difficult to exaggerate the power of habit.
We begin with the possible, and move gradually towards the impossible.
A principle is universal, a rule is inflexible, a law is invariable.
The musician is as rich as the music they give away.
There is no such thing as making a mistake. Only one thing is compulsory, only one mistake: and that is not realizing your mistakes.
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
If we don’t know where we’re going, we’ll probably get there; if where we are going is how we get there, we are already where we are going.
Creative work is serious play.
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.
We are able to be with others only to the degree that we are able to be ourselves. This being so, we can only be in the performance to the degree that we can be ourselves: to be who we are.
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