What we hear is the quality of our listening.

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

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

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.