Robert Fripp Quotes

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

~ Robert Fripp

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

~ Robert Fripp

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

~ Robert Fripp

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

~ Robert Fripp

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

~ Robert Fripp