29+ Greg Lake Quotes On Healing, Prayer And King Crimson

Greg Lake was an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as the founding member of the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He was also a member of King Crimson, and released several solo albums. Lake wrote and sang the song "Lucky Man", which became his signature song and one of the first progressive rock hits. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Greg Lake on life, love, healing.

Top 10 Greg Lake Quotes

1. 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.
2. Still...you turn me on
3. Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
4. The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
5. I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. To make art you need to be inspired.
9. The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.
10. 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 Quotes About Music

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

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. — Greg Lake

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

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

Greg Lake Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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. — Greg Lake

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

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

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. — Greg Lake

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unless you go forward then you are going back. — Greg Lake

Life Lessons by Greg Lake

1. Greg Lake taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he achieved success both as a solo artist and as part of the band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
2. He also showed us that it is possible to have a successful career in music, even if you don't fit into the traditional mold of a rock star.
3. Finally, he demonstrated that it is possible to create timeless music that stands the test of time, as his songs are still popular today.