Robert Fripp Quotes

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

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

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

Your frame of reference is what you see.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.