Greg Lake Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.”

“The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.”

“Unless you go forward then you are going back.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.”

“Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.”