Giving the public what it is perceived the public wants is a professional undertaking. It has my respect.

A good professional can guarantee to play what they know. They can walk onstage and play the possible.

Artistry is where we embrace the impossible. Why? Because we have to, it’s who-we-are!
If we compromise with that… life loses its flavour, it comes with a very high price.

For much of our professional life the public will not like us, because we are not giving them what they want. And, I can prove it with 53 years of criticism and 24 years of online commentary.

So, a discipline over a period of years establishes a conversation between who-we-are and what-we-are. Who-we-are speaks to us in a particular voice, which conventionally is referred to as ‘this is my personal voice’. In reality, it’s actually our utterly impersonal voice. But, we refer to it as ‘my personal voice’ and, my personal voice in music began speaking in 1971 in what became Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part I. This is not a cerebral undertaking, is when different parts of us talk to each other and we recognise that this is so.

Robert Fripp
Friday 30th. September, 2022
That Awful Man & His Very Nice Manager Tour 2022
City Winery, Washington