Robert Fripp Quotes

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

There are no rules to writing a song.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.