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"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."
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"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."
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"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."
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"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."
Expectation
"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake."
Mistake
"What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely."
Want
"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible."
People
"I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening."
Quality
"According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes."
America
"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."
Fact
"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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