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Fripp, Robert Filmography

Play in Full Screen David Bowie: Five Years

2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen Prog Rock Britannia

2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2005, role: actor
Play in Full Screen Nightingale in a Music Box

2002, role: composer
Play in Full Screen Deja Vroom

1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen King Crimson: Live in Japan

1995, role: actor , character name: Soundscapes
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1995, role: actor , character name: Guitar
Play in Full Screen Cue the Music

1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen YesYears

1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen VH1 New Visions

1986, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest Host VJ
Play in Full Screen Three of a Perfect Pair: Live in Japan

1985, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guitar
Play in Full Screen The Noise: Live in Fréjus

1982, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guitar
Play in Full Screen The Devil's Triangle

1974, role: composer

Famous quotes by Robert Fripp:

"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."

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

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence"

"If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do."

"And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band."

"According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes."

"Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert."

"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."

"Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language."

"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."

"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."

"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible."

"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."

"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously."

"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 genius remain present in the music or not?"

"In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."

"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."

"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"

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Robert Fripp: New York - Wimborne (Part 1)

Late Night In Concert, BBC2, 1985.

published: 21 Jan 2008

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Taking The Leap With King Crimson

More from Sid Smith's interview with Robert Fripp. Thinking of bringing your negativity t...

published: 06 Oct 2014

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Robert Fripp - Frippertronics, Interview

published: 28 Dec 2007

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Robert Fripp from King Crimson interview pt1

This is from his "Drive to 1981 Tour" in 1979.

published: 04 Jan 2008

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ROBERT FRIPP prt 1 interviewed by BAS ANDRIESSEN july 13 1999

In 1999 I (= BA) interviewed ROBERT FRIPP twice about KING CRIMSON for two 4 hours broadc...

published: 04 Oct 2012

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Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Interview in Japan 2002

Robert Fripp Interview in Japan 2002 on release of "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy W...

published: 09 Dec 2014

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Patricia Fripp & Robert Fripp: King Crimson 2015-2016

http://www.fripp.com/store Patricia Fripp and Robert Fripp speak at Lady and the Champs Sp...

published: 21 Nov 2015

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ROBERT FRIPP: 1979 "Exposure" radio interview

Interiew with Robert Fripp from 1979, where he discusses the breakup of King Crimson, the ...

published: 04 Mar 2014

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Chicago

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Disengage

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Here Comes The Flood

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Preface

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Postscript

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I May Not Have Had Enough Of Me But I've Had Enough Of You

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You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette

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Mary

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Ny3

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North Star

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2002

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Chicago

I smile like Chicago
She laughs like the breeze
I try so hard to charm her
With minor mysteries
I collide with her softness
With the whispers and pleas
Echoes of her movements
Delicate obscenities
It's a one quarter rain dance
Half of it's prayer
It's a simplest romance
Rattles high in the air
She's the gentlest pretender
I'm a clown on a spree
Still it's sweet to remember
The way it might be

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File - Planet Kepler-10b is orbiting it star about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun. It is the smallest exoplanet (a planet located outside our solar system) discovered to date.

Stars With Planets On Strange Orbits: What’s Going On?

Edit IFL Science 04 Jun 2016

All the planets in our solar system orbit close to the sun’s equatorial plane. Of the eight confirmed planets, the Earth’s orbit is the most tilted, but even that tilt is still small, at just seven degrees. It was natural, then, for astronomers to expect that planets orbiting other stars would behave the same way – forming and evolving on orbits aligned with their host star’s equators ... An Explosion Of Exoplanets ... NASA, ESA, M ... ....

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Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali is momentarily displeased after weigh-in ceremony, May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine, arena

Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali Has Died

Edit WPTV 04 Jun 2016

Arguably the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74. Ali was reportedly taken to a Phoenix-area hospital with a respiratory issue in early June. At the time, a spokesperson for the former boxer said the hospital stay was expected to be brief. But Ali's condition apparently deteriorated ... Inside and outside of the ring, Ali was larger than life ... ....

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Puerto Rican workers participate in a protest rally, days before the local government has announced it may be forced to temporarily shutdown public schools and other departments due to a more than US$700 million shortfall in public funds, in front of the Capitolio building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 27, 2006.

Great Oppressor Tells Puerto Rico “Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps”

Edit WorldNews.com 03 Jun 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “Mosquitoes. Rats…malaria and hookworm, and in about every other house someone with tuberculosis, …” was how President Franklin D ... Wall Street, Population Control, and Militarization of Puerto Rico In reality, the plan invigorated Wall Street and U.S ... dictated.Entire agricultural regions were transformed into industrial centers of mass production ... Not only will the U.S ... Indeed, the U.S ... 321....

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View of the flooded banks of the river Seine in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, Friday, June 3, 2016.

Seine Water Levels Decrease Again After Paris Flooding Peaks

Edit Bloomberg 04 Jun 2016

Paris (AP) -- French authorities say the water level of the Seine river in Paris started to decrease Saturday after reaching its peak overnight, the highest in nearly 35 years ... Nearly a week of heavy rain has led to serious flooding across parts of France, Germany, Romania and Belgium, leaving 16 people dead and others missing ... ....

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File - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif share a laugh on May 17, 2016, as they enter the Blue Salon at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, the same room where they negotiated the Iranian nuclear deal, to have further conversations about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Kerry Deplores Doctoring Of Official Video On Iran Nuclear Talks

Edit Radio Free Europe 04 Jun 2016

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said it was "clumsy and stupid and inappropriate" that someone in the department's press office edited out embarrassing footage in a press briefing on the Iran nuclear talks ... A key quote by Psaki, who is now director of communications at the White House, was edited out. "There are times where diplomacy needs privacy. This is a good example of that." ...  . ....

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Inside David Bowie's Final Berlin Album 'Lodger'

Edit Rollingstone 18 May 2016

Though Lodger was considered the final LP in David Bowie's Berlin trilogy, recording for it actually began in Montreux, Switzerland, and was completed in New York. The link was Bowie's ongoing collaboration with Brian Eno, whose influence looms large ... Sidebar. David Bowie ... Replacing Robert Fripp for this outing was Adrian Belew, poached by Bowie in Berlin when the young guitarist came through town with Frank Zappa's band ... ....

Brian Eno’s ‘The Ship’ and a Look at His 45-Year Career

Edit Rhapsody 29 Apr 2016

Brian Eno’s music is intuitive and bears all the blue-eyed intellect of its creator ... They all thought they were unsinkable, and they sank.” ... Released on Eno’s own experimental imprint, Obscure Records, Discreet Music was originally created for Robert Fripp live shows ... The album features Eno on synth, keys and guitar, while the loose guitar stylings of King Crimson’s Robert Fripp lend rawness to Visconti’s impeccable production ... ....

Brian Eno: The Ship review – bold experiments of varying success

Edit The Guardian 28 Apr 2016

3 / 5 stars. Eno’s latest aims to dispense with traditional song structures but is at its most captivating when tending back towards them. @alexispetridis ... the off-kilter songs that filled Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy and the explorations of drifting ambience that began with No Pussyfooting, his 1973 collaboration with Robert Fripp ... Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest ... But the song element is more problematic ... ....

LCD Soundsystem Cover David Bowie's 'Heroes' at Coachella

Edit Rollingstone 16 Apr 2016

Sidebar ... "As a little kid, 'Heroes' was one of my favorite songs, and as a bearded hipster, Bowie/[Brian] Eno collabs in Berlin are, you know, 'check' as cool stuff to listen to that you like," Murphy told The AV Squad in 2010 following the release of the Berlin Trilogy-inspired This Is Happening; the LP's "All I Want" is especially indebted to Bowie and Robert Fripp's work on "Heroes." ... ....

Music Stars Share Moving Stories of David Bowie’s Influence

Edit Time Magazine 02 Apr 2016

Some of the music industry’s biggest stars gathered Friday night to remember the late David Bowie with a tribute concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City ...  . The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne . ... R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. ... “Heroes” is a song we played for many years, we actually recorded it with Robert Fripp, it’s a song we know and love and seemed the right thing to do tonight ... ....

20 Things You Didn't Know John Paul Jones Did

Edit Rollingstone 18 Mar 2016

Signed with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp's DGM label in 1999 and released two solo albums ... When it came time to find a label, however, the options appeared limited, so he reached out to King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, who had just started his own company ... "Robert and I shared managers at one point," Jones recalled. "I asked what Robert was doing....

The Resurrections of David Bowie

Edit The Atlantic 15 Mar 2016

Ian Wright ... Oh no, love, you’re not alone … All the knives seem to lacerate your brain / I’ve had my share, I’ll help you with the pain / You’re not alone! ... Pure Bowie ... You hear Oberleutnant Bowie giving the orders—Fashion! Turn to the left / Fashion! Turn to the right—and you hear drummer Dennis Davis’s disco-giant stomp and the lacerating jags of Robert Fripp’s guitar, and you feel subliminally attacked by fashion itself ... ....

Brit awards: 10 things to look forward to

Edit The Guardian 23 Feb 2016

From Adele’s surefire success to Justin Bieber and the much-dreaded all-star Bowie tribute, here’s what to watch out for at Wednesday’s ceremony. @michaelahann. 1. Will Rihanna turn up?. Rihanna is increasingly giving the impression that she really doesn’t care about anything very much. Her album? “Oh, I’ve got a cover and all that. I’ll get round to recording it at some point ... Got bronchitis ... 2 ... 3 ... Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and so on....

Phil Collins returns: ‘I got letters from nurses saying, “That’s it, I’m not buying your records”’

Edit The Guardian 11 Feb 2016

He was one of the planet’s biggest stars, selling 100ms of records ... “This was like ... ‘Time to stop.’” ... Twitter ... A sociable chap and a versatile, jazz-influenced drummer, Collins played for the likes of Robert Fripp, John Cale and, on four consecutive albums, Brian Eno ... In between solo albums Collins also steered Genesis into the mainstream, produced records for John Martyn and Adam Ant, and played drums for Robert Plant and Paul McCartney....

Thoughts on the Music and Career of David Bowie

Edit Huffington Post 08 Feb 2016

I was truly shocked and saddened by the news of David Bowie's passing. I had an immediate flashback to the 10th grade, Mr ... Dick, Robert Heinlein, George Orwell, and Edgar Rice Burroughs and of course, the infamous Beat Generation writer, William S. Burroughs ... I disagree ... There is also quite a bit of minimalist and ambient influence, most prominent in his work with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the late '70s ... ....

Could Gone Girl on the Train be the next bestseller?

Edit The Guardian 01 Feb 2016

for an Auden poem (Joan Bakewell’s Stop the Clocks); a Restoration play (David Harvey’s The Ways of the World); a Bowie single (Ali Eskandarian’s Golden Years); a Lou Reed single (Raphael Montes’s Perfect Days); as well as a Mal Peet book, a Robert Fripp album and a TV series (Helen Dunmore’s Exposure)....

Hot Chip review: Making perfect fun out of an imperfect situation

Edit Canberra Times 23 Jan 2016

Opera House. January 22. ★★★★ ... And fun was had from first second to last. Such fun ... Through the night we got songs where choppy Chic guitars, '80s funk bass and motorik drums merged under the rule of a cracking pop melody, and others where guitarist/bassist/synth player Al Doyle threw in some Robert Fripp guitar sounds or percussionist/bassist/guitarist Rob Smoughton just got down ... In the concert hall ... ....

Tuned In: Superb songwriting at the heart of David Bowie's musical legacy

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jan 2016

Maybe Bowie's musical influence was broader than I thought ... Co-written with Brian Eno who was a heavy influence on the Berlin albums, Bowie goes for broke combining his gifted ear for melody with electronics – in particular the EMS VCS3 synthesiser – and the guitar-tronics of King Crimson's Robert Fripp to produce a magical swirl of sound that was beautifully produced and equalled any other recording from the 1970s....

Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions

David Cross & Robert Fripp - Starless Starlight, 2015

The Robert Fripp String Quintet

Robert Fripp String Quintet Live in Japan 1992 [FULL SHOW]

Robert Fripp's introduction to the new DGM Youtube channel

Robert Fripp On Meeting Jimi Hendrix

Robert Fripp String Quintet - 1992 TFM Hall,Tokyo

Robert Fripp Frippertronics Demonstration 79

Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox ~ All Star Mr & Mrs

Robert Fripp - Windows Vista recording session (2006)

Fripp, Robert Filmography

Famous quotes by Robert Fripp:

"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."

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

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence"

"If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do."

"And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band."

"According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes."

"Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert."

"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."

"Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language."

"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."

"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."

"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible."

"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."

"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously."

"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 genius remain present in the music or not?"

"In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it."

"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."

"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."

"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."

"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"

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Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions

David Cross & Robert Fripp - Starless Starlight, 2015

The Robert Fripp String Quintet

Robert Fripp String Quintet Live in Japan 1992 [FULL SHOW]

Robert Fripp's introduction to the new DGM Youtube channel

Robert Fripp On Meeting Jimi Hendrix

Robert Fripp String Quintet - 1992 TFM Hall,Tokyo

Robert Fripp Frippertronics Demonstration 79

Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox ~ All Star Mr & Mrs

Robert Fripp - Windows Vista recording session (2006)

Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions

David Cross & Robert Fripp - Starless Starlight, 2015

The Robert Fripp String Quintet

Robert Fripp String Quintet Live in Japan 1992 [FULL SHOW]

Robert Fripp's introduction to the new DGM Youtube channel

Robert Fripp On Meeting Jimi Hendrix

Robert Fripp String Quintet - 1992 TFM Hall,Tokyo

Robert Fripp Frippertronics Demonstration 79

Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox ~ All Star Mr & Mrs

Robert Fripp - Windows Vista recording session (2006)

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp The Road To Graceland 93 Tour live in japan

Frippertronics on Midnight Special 1979

Heroes - King Crimson (Live in London 2000)

Robert Fripp - Introductory Soundscape (Live in Japan, 2003)

King Crimson - Live In Japan (full concert)

Blondie w/ Robert Fripp-Sister Midnight-Palladium (11/12/78) (live)

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Wave (Live 10/26/93)

The Stick Men - Breathless [Robert Fripp] (Live in Copehagen, March 8th, 2014)

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp The Road To Graceland 93 Tour live in japan

Frippertronics on Midnight Special 1979

Heroes - King Crimson (Live in London 2000)

Robert Fripp - Introductory Soundscape (Live in Japan, 2003)

King Crimson - Live In Japan (full concert)

Blondie w/ Robert Fripp-Sister Midnight-Palladium (11/12/78) (live)

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Wave (Live 10/26/93)

The Stick Men - Breathless [Robert Fripp] (Live in Copehagen, March 8th, 2014)

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked - Full Album

Robert Fripp signature guitar - the slim 'Stealth'

Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen & Under Heavy Manners 1980

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day ( Full Album )

Robert Fripp & The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists - 1986 Philadelphia

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked - Full Album

Robert Fripp signature guitar - the slim 'Stealth'

Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen & Under Heavy Manners 1980

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day ( Full Album )

Robert Fripp & The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists - 1986 Philadelphia