“We are able to be with others only to the degree that we are able to be ourselves. This being so, we can only be in the performance to the degree that we can be ourselves: to be who we are.”

—  Robert Fripp

The Six Principles of the Performance Event

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English guitarist, composer and record producer 1946

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