Robert Fripp Quotes

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

Music isn't only a profession.

I've always said that music is like literature.

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

Music tells no truths.

I'm basically a musician.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.