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Greg Lake, a British musician born on November 10, 1947, and passed away on December 8, 2016. He is renowned for his talent and contributions to the music industry, being a key member of iconic bands such as King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

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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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“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.”

Writing Believe Ends Sometimes Issues Teeth Grit Tenacious Just Believe

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

Unique Songwriting Formulas Unique Experiences

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“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.”

Doe Sometimes Shows Bits Miles

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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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“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.”

People Art Eye Cities Passing Passings Fascinating Things Change People Changing Changing Everything

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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.”

Want Different Cities Healthy Stores Shopping Malls

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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.”

Different States United United States Tree South Snow Palms Touring Palm Trees

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“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.”

Way Giving Building Walking Humble Capitol Reassuring

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“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.”

People Sometimes Asks Difficult Wonder Destiny Wonderful Journey Advice Talent Ask Me Wonderful Things Advise New Talent

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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.”

Ifs Want Writing Discipline Periods Just One Chores

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“To make art you need to be inspired.”

Needs Art Inspired Be Inspired

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

Soul Emotional Music Is

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

Thinking Humans Art Emotion Art Is Communicate Great Art Human Emotions

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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?”

People Ifs Want Long Play Able Enjoy Performing

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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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“There is no standing still because time is moving forward.”

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

Difficult Dignity Defeat Things To Do Difficult Things Comeback Simplification Personal Dignity

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“Still...you turn me on”

Love Life Stills Turns Relationship Love Life Love Relationship Turn Me

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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.”

Want Life Feels Life Is Creativity Life Is Short Short Life Marking Time

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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.”

World Said Differences Successful Rocks Changed Band Rock N Roll Ringo

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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.”

Thinking Persons Art Goal Challenges Type Art Is Achiever

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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.”

Want Trying Stuff Black Musical Genre Gospel Music Black Music

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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.”

People Self Fun Involved Lessons Music Is Being True Relax I Have Learned

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

Way Albums Pioneering

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

Made Music Is Greatest Music

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

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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.”

Way Years Stills Two Numbers Identity Band Members

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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.”

Heart Play Differences Cynical

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About the Author

Born: November 10, 1947
Died: December 8, 2016
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 29

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