84 Quotes by Robert Fripp

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

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

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

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

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.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

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.

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.