To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
Interpretation
Art involves tapping into one's inner innocence, while craft is the means to achieve that connection.
In this quote, Robert Fripp suggests that true artistry comes from a deep, instinctual connection to one's creative innocence, which can be accessed through skillful practice or craft. He emphasizes that the relationship between a musician and their music is inherently unpredictable and elusive; although the moments of inspiration and creation are not guaranteed, one can enhance the likelihood of those moments by fostering a conducive environment for creativity.
In practice
During a speech at an art exhibition, one might quote this to inspire artists about the importance of connecting with their inner child.
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.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.
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