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.

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

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

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

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

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