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The aim is freedom conscience and truth
Beginner's luck is great for beginners.
What we hear is the quality of our listening.
Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.
Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.
When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
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?
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
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.
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.
What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
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.