84 Quotes by Robert Fripp

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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.

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.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.