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.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

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

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

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

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