Robert FrippThe aim is freedom conscience and truth361Truth
Robert FrippMusic is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.351Truth
Robert FrippThe only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. … ▶311DeathLifePolitics
Robert FrippWhat we hear is the quality of our listening.377Humor
Robert FrippWhat is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.356Humanity
Robert FrippLinguistic 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… ▶367Hope
Robert FrippThe spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.323TimeTruth
Robert FrippAnd 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.313Reflection
Robert FrippBut 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.369Sadness
Robert FrippUnderstanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.271Humanity
Robert FrippIf 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.262Time
Robert FrippDiscipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.285Thought
Robert FrippAccording to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.231Time
Robert FrippThen certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.232Thought
Robert FrippTo me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.287Love
Robert FrippQuiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.243Politics
Robert FrippI recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'233LifeLove
Robert FrippMusic is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ✨ The Vinyl Solution. Musician, Player, and Listener, No. 24, April/May 1980.299Death
Robert FrippIn strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we tru… ▶289HopeLifeLove
Robert FrippMusic is the wine that fills the cup of silence.278Reflection
Robert FrippNow, 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 expecta… ▶213Death
Robert FrippIf 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 thei… ▶279Time
Robert FrippMusic so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.202Time
Robert FrippPurely by hard work, one can become an artist.193Truth
Robert FrippThe creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speake… ▶248Thought
Robert FrippMusic never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.171Philosophy
Robert FrippA mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.151Sadness
Robert FrippWe know others to the extent that we know ourselves.2410Life
Robert FrippThere are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.206Time
Robert FrippHowever, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.207Life
