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Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.

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Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.
Jamie Muir
At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
Jamie Muir
King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.
Jamie Muir
The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.
Jamie Muir
There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.
Jamie Muir
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
Jamie Muir
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.
Jamie Muir
Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music.
Jamie Muir
Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.
Jamie Muir
The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
Jamie Muir
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Michael Korda
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
John Lone
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Sol LeWitt
My art became very public.
Joey Skaggs
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Maynard James Keenan
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
John Drinkwater
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel Duchamp
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
Julie Taymor
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
Kim Cattrall
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
Allen Tate
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
Jane Haddam
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien Hirst
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert Smithson
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
Felix de Weldon
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu Reeves
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
Joseph Beuys