Keith Emerson Quotes

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.

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

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

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

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

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

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

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

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

I've never written a book before.

I've gone through hell and back.

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

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.

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.

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

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

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.

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.

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.

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

I consider everything I compose a gift.

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.

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.