Robert Fripp citations (17 citations)

In the road diary which accompanies the CD release of the 1980 League Of Gentlemen album "Thrang, Thrang, Gozimbulx", about Bowie's album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
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“Act with courtesy - Otherwise, be polite, but always be kind.”

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Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988

“Music so wishes to be heard that sometimes it calls on unlikely characters to give it voice, and ears. This wishing-to-be heard calls into existence the Performance Event; where music, musician and audience may come together as one, in communion. This communion has six different forms of being and experiencing itself (plus an invisible seventh); and these forms, or principles, are simultaneously present within the Performance.
I - When people get together with music, something happens.
II - In a performance, things come together, mysteriously; and go better than we might anticipate; and better than we deserve.
III - A performance can take on a life and character of its own.
IV - Any one performance is a multiplicity of performances.
V - The possible is possible.
VI - The impossible is possible.
The Seventh Principle resides within Silence.
Trust the event.”

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The Six Principles of the Performance Event

“A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable, and never acceptable.”

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Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988

“There is no such thing as making a mistake. Only one thing is compulsory, only one mistake: and that is not realizing your mistakes.”

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Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (Eric Tamm)

“You see, the thing is, I’ve been in jams like this. The feeling is totally there among the musicians (and whoever else happens to be sitting around, whether they’ve paid for it or not, probably, and preferably, not). You are close to silence, Silence with a capital S. You are in tune with silence, the deepest sound of them all. Every sound, therefore, that you make, make with intention, sensitivity, and awareness, has a meaning, an ineffability, a significance. You are listening, Listening with a capital L. You hear what everyone else is doing; you do whatever is necessary, which is usually as little as possible. It has nothing to do with self-expression: it has to do with a group mind.”

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Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (Eric Tamm)

“Normality is what we might achieve, given who we are, what we are, the conditions and limitations of the world we work within.”

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Quoted in Robert Fripp's Online Diary, Thursday, 4 June 2009
The Six Principles of the Performance Event
Source: http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=14777