Robert Fripp

“A musician is a professional, a craftsman, and has to be able to deliver on demand.”

“How you play a note is as important as what note you play.”

“The first thing to do is to be. The second is to do. And the third is to have.”

“Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.”

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

“King Crimson is a way of doing things.”

“Silence is a pregnant pause.”

“My life is a reading of the score.”

“Discipline is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.”

“Expectation is a prison.”

“An audience has a right to its weakness and its hunger. And the artist has a right to his strength and his refusal.”

“In the 21st century, the musician is a mobile, small, independent business.”

“Stupidity is an immovable object. You can't try to attack it with any kind of logic, because it's not a logical problem. It's a problem of consciousness.”

“Responsibility is taken, not given.”

“The act of music is the act of the musician, which is an act of will.”