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"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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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"

"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."

"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold."
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"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."


"If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no."


"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."


"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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