Top 19 Keith Emerson Quotes

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

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

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 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.

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.

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 consider everything I compose a gift.

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.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You’ve got to keep things flying.

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

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.