Robert Fripp Quotes

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

I like 'Discipline.' That's my favorite King Crimson album.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

What must be shall be.

What always was must always be.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

Everything that has happened had to happen. Everything that must happen cannot be stopped.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.