Robert Fripp

Musician

1946-05-16

Quotes by Robert Fripp

• According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

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• Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

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• If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

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• Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

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• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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• What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

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