Robert Fripp Quotes

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.

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.

Creative work is serious play.

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.

The musician is as rich as the music they give away.

It is difficult to exaggerate the power of habit.

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.

Music so wishes to be heard that sometimes it calls on unlikely characters to give it voice, and ears. This wishing-to-be heard calls into existence the Performance Event; where music, musician and audience may come together as one, in communion. This communion has six different forms of being and experiencing itself (plus an invisible seventh); and these forms, or principles, are simultaneously present within the Performance.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Normality is what we might achieve, given who we are, what we are, the conditions and limitations of the world we work within.

We begin with the possible, and move gradually towards the impossible.

A principle is universal, a rule is inflexible, a law is invariable.

Act with courtesy - Otherwise, be polite, but always be kind.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.