Quotes by Robert Fripp

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Musician · English · 1946

English musician (born 1946)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Robert Fripp

music power-of-music

“In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressib...”

— Robert Fripp

benevolence creative creativity despair

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

— Robert Fripp

emptiness music noise silence

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

— Robert Fripp

Mistakes Mistake Learn

“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 ...”

— Robert Fripp

Sleep Genius Professional

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

— Robert Fripp

Creating Magical Just

“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

Quality World Present

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

— Robert Fripp

Mistake Always