To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
Robert FrippThe 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.
Robert FrippAnd if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
Robert FrippMusic can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
Robert Fripp