84 Quotes by Robert Fripp

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.