Robert Fripp

A RockMusic?ian, well known for his work as a member of the band King Crimson.

Fripp has also written down some of his thoughts about music, being a musician, and the nature of practice. These may be of interest to people who see a connection between music and software development as creative processes.

• Structures and other stuff - Let Power Fall
  • Fripp Diary Entry 2012
    • http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=21897

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From "The Road to Graceland" :

A practice of any value will be three things:

1. A way of developing a relationship with the instrument;
2. A way of developing a relationship with music;
3. A way of developing a relationship with ourselves.

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Fripp may be the author of the following quote found in the liner notes to King Crimson's album Discipline:

"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."

And:

"Relaxation is never accidental."

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Others from elsewhere:

• Money is not a problem, only a difficulty.
• Any fool can play something difficult.
• If we can ask our body to do nothing for half an hour, perhaps we can ask our body to do something for half an hour.
• Listening is how we eat music. Hearing is how we digest it.
• Efficiency: the right amount of the right quality of energy, in the right place at the right time, doing what is right.
• A function of language is to disclose. An effect is to reveal.

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Not only a musician that some WikiZens enjoy the labour of, but also someone with interesting things to say about skillful, disciplined creative work that some wikizens find speaks to their own work.

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Contributors: AnonymousDonors, MikeSmith, JosephDale, JasonGrossman

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