Greg Lake quotes

Greg Lake was a British musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. His distinctive voice and skill on guitar and bass made him an influential figure in progressive rock. He left a lasting mark on music history with his memorable songs and powerful performances. Here are 15 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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

Greg Lake

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Greg Lake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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