62 Quotes by 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.

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That’s not healthy.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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

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.

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