Quotes by Greg Lake - Page 1

Still...you turn me on
Greg Lake / Musician
Love
Life
Relationship
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To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake / Musician
Art
Inspired
Needs
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Unless you go forward then you are going back.
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The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.
Greg Lake / Musician
Albums
Pioneering
Way
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The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
Greg Lake / Musician
Greatest Music
Made
Music Is
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There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake / Musician
Moving
Moving Forward
Standing
Standing Still
Stills
Still
Forward
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I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.
Greg Lake / Musician
Belief
Good Music Heart
Good Music
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I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Greg Lake / Musician
Art
Emotion
Thinking
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Greg Lake / Musician
Comeback
Defeat
Difficult
Difficult Things
Dignity
Most
Things
Making
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Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.
Greg Lake / Musician
Emotional
Music Is
Soul
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I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.
Greg Lake / Musician
Songwriting
Unique
Unique Experiences
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Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.
Greg Lake / Musician
Hit Record
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You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.
Greg Lake / Musician
Cities
Healthy
Shopping
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As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
Greg Lake / Musician
Band
Changed
Differences
Ringo
Rocks
Successful
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I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.
Greg Lake / Musician
Air
Gypsy
Mean
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Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.
Greg Lake / Musician
Long
Song
Writing
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Traveling is a bit of a push sometimes. When you're doing a lot of miles and you're doing a lot of shows, it does get wearing.
Greg Lake / Musician
Doe
Miles
Sometimes
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It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
Greg Lake / Musician
Inspiration
Perspiration
Songwriting
They Say
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I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.
Greg Lake / Musician
Snow
Tree
United States
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I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.
Greg Lake / Musician
Snow
South
Touring
Palm
Dramatically
North
Trees
Wherever
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What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.
Greg Lake / Musician
Power People More
Diluted
More People
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Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Greg Lake / Musician
Emotion
Great Art
Art Experience Music
Experience Art Music
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Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
Greg Lake / Musician
Performing
Standing
Go Home
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When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
Greg Lake / Musician
Cynical
Differences
Heart
Play
All The Difference
Play Music
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Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.
Greg Lake / Musician
Giving
Humble
Way
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As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?
Greg Lake / Musician
Long
People
Play
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I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
Greg Lake / Musician
Life
Creativity
Want
Life Time My Life
Short
Marking
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Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.
Greg Lake / Musician
Believe
Issues
Writing
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I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
Greg Lake / Musician
Black
Black Music
Gospel Music
Musical
Trying
Gospel
Base
Blues
Genres
Involve
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I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
Greg Lake / Musician
Art
Achiever
Goal
Thinking
Type
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Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
Greg Lake / Musician
Fun
Involved
People
Relax
Self
Money Music Fun
Be True
Biggest
Biggest Lesson
Lesson
Philosophically
Seriously
Thy
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I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.
Greg Lake / Musician
Art
Cities
Eye
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Songs are like children. They are all special to me - you can't just pick a favorite. Of course, 'Lucky Man' was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done different things.
Greg Lake / Musician
Different Things
Man Done Me
Tune
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When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
Greg Lake / Musician
Autobiography
Time Age Music
From Time To Time
Shared
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The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.
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Band
Drama
Ensemble
Huge
Individual
Stage
Ten
Music Start People
Living
Less
Each
Each Individual
Music Living People
Start
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I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake / Musician
Discipline
Periods
Chore
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When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.
Greg Lake / Musician
Band
Identity
Members
Numbers
Two
Years
Number
Loose
Sudden
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When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
Greg Lake / Musician
Caught
Fireworks
Gary
Right Direction
Time Good Music
Box
Direction
Moore
Searching
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Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn by influence. And some people have a huge impact on you, and that's how you become the artist you are.
Greg Lake / Musician
Elements
Exposure
Certain Things
Huge Impact
Make Up
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I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.
Greg Lake / Musician
Ringo
Context
Tour
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I love to see new talent, new people beginning. It's a wonderful thing, and one wonders where their journey will take them. Sometimes they ask me for advice but it's very difficult to advise people. Everyone has their own destiny really.
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Journey
Destiny
People
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I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.
Greg Lake / Musician
Discipline
Want
Writing
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I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.
Greg Lake / Musician
Christmas
Mother And Father
Bought
Picked
Struck
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'Lucky Man' I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn't even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.
Greg Lake / Musician
Chords
Lucky
Paper
Remembered
Twelve
Piece
Stayed
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You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.
Greg Lake / Musician
Luck
Time Work Believe
Certain Extent
Extent
Hear People
Work Time Believe
People Say
Right People
Work Hard
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Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.
Greg Lake / Musician
Fabric
Musical
Progressive
Music Culture People
Belongs
Exist
For The People
Nurtured
Picked
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Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment.
Greg Lake / Musician
Couple
Memories
Song
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