If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

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

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

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.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.