Robert Fripp's Aphorisms

-When stuck, increase the complexity.
-The musician and the audience are parents to the music.
-A principle is an instruction in qualitative endeavour.
-It is not necessary to be cheerful, it is not necessary to feel cheerful, but look cheerful.
-Music is a powerful and direct teacher which speaks to us all, to the degree that we are able to hear.
-A principle is universal, a rule is specific, a law is invariable.
-Signposts are useful when you know where you're going.
-A discipline that does not lead to a compassionate practice may be said to have failed.
-What is right accords with principle.
-We recognize in others what we know most deeply in ourselves.
-The more failures, the more successes.
-What we hear is the way that we hear.
-Understanding changes what we understand.
-We have the right to choose our form of suffering.
-Anything within a performance is significant, whether intentional or not.
-Music is a quality, organized in sound and in time.
-Expect nothing.