Robert Fripp

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#power-of-music #music

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#music #reliability #inspirational

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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