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

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

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.

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

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

The 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.

And 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.