Keith Emerson Quotes

You’ve got to keep things flying.

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

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.

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.