Greg Lake Quotes

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.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.