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.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

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

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.