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Michael Giles

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."

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"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."

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Amber Hurdle

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

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"The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs.""You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?""Of course it sounds bad when you put it that way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit."

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"I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries."
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"I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal."
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"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
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"I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time."
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"The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening."
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"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."
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