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

That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

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

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.