Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

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

That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.

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

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

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.

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