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.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

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.

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.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.