Robert Fripp > Quotes

“Q: Where does Music come from?
A: The same place as Silence.
Q: Why aren’t Music and Silence the same, then?
A: They are. It’s just that Music is a little louder.”
― Robert Fripp

“The quality we bring to one small part of our life is the quality we bring to all the small parts of our life.

All the small parts of our life is our life.

If we are able to make one small act of quality, it wiil spread throughout the larger act of living.

This is in the nature of a quality - a quality is ungovernable by size and by the rules of quantity: a quality is ungovernable my number.

So, one small act of quality is as big as one big act of quality.

An act of quality carries intention, commitment and presence, and is never accidental.”
― Robert Fripp

“History travels many paths but only one direction.”
― Robert Fripp, Robert Fripp | Excerpts

“Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken”
― Robert Fripp

“We forget that we forget.”
― Robert Fripp, Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork

“Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.”
― Robert Fripp

“We begin where we are.”
― Robert Fripp

“Reason alone is a one legged stool.”
― Robert Fripp

“History travels many paths but only one direction.
Robert Fripp, 'Wessex Tales', in the story 'Whose Pig?”
― Robert Fripp, Robert Fripp | Excerpts

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp