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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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Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
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If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
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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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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.
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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.
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To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
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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?
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According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
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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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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.
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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.
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The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
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