Keith Emerson Quotes

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

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.

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.

You've got to keep things flying.

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

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 consider everything I compose a gift.

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

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

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.

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.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

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

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

I've gone through hell and back.

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

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

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

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

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

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