I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

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.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?