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.

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

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

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.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.