Keith Emerson Quotes

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't ... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

You've got to keep things flying.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

I've never written a book before.

Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.

I've gone through hell and back.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.