Michael Giles Quotes

Michael Giles — English Musician born on March 01, 1942,

Michael Giles is an English drummer, best known as a co-founder of King Crimson in 1969. Prior to the formation of King Crimson, he also co-founded the short-lived Giles, Giles & Fripp with his brother, Peter, and Robert Fripp the previous year... (wikipedia)

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

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.

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

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

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.

Michael Giles Quotes

Michael Giles Quotes

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