"The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto 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 unreal."

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Source : "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

Robert Fripp

#Rewards Quotes #Privilege Quotes #Musician Quotes

“[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.”
“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.”
“Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.”
“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”
“People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.”

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.”
“My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano. "But you're not a duke," said Arianna. "I will be if you marry me," said Luciano. "Yes, you would be," said Arianna. "Would?" "If you are asking me." "I'm asking." "And if I accepted." "Do you?" "I do. With all my heart.”
“Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)”

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