The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.
Robert FrippThen certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
Robert FrippI couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
Robert FrippThe only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.
Robert Fripp