I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If … - Robert Fripp

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A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

Robert Fripp

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life. '

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Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

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Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

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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 inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

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