Greg Lake Quotes

• Still...you turn me on

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

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  Moving, Standing Still, Stills

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• Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

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  Emotional, Soul, Music Is

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• The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

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  Made, Music Is, Greatest Music

  "Mourning the celebrities who died in 2016 and celebrating the legacy they left behind" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. December 10, 2016.

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• Unless you go forward then you are going back.

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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.

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  Successful, Rocks, Differences

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• I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

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  Art, Thinking, Emotion

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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.

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  Heart, Play, Differences

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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.

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  Mean, Air, Gypsy

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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.

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  Song, Writing, Long

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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.

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  Song, Couple, Memories

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

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  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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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.

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  Cities, Shopping, Healthy

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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.

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  Writing, Discipline, Want

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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.

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  Black, Musical, Trying

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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.

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  Art, Eye, Cities

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• The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

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  Albums, Way, Pioneering

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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.

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  Life, Creativity, Want

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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?

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  Play, Long, People

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• To make art you need to be inspired.

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  Art, Needs, Inspired

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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.

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  Years, Two, Numbers

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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.

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  Art, Thinking, Goal

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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.

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  Fun, Self, People

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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.

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  Snow, Tree, United States

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• I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

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  Unique, Unique Experiences, Songwriting

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