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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.

~Greg Lake

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

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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.

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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.

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Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

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

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What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: November 10th, 1947

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