Keith Emerson Quotes

• You’ve got to keep things flying.

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

• If they want a photograph, then just take it.

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

• I’ve never written a book before.

  Keith Emerson

• I’ve gone through hell and back.

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

• 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.

  Keith Emerson

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

  Keith Emerson

Keith Emerson (29)

Birth:	2nd November, 1944
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician

About

Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboardist and composer. He was formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, The V.I.P.'s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, The Nice, and in 1970 a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, one of the early supergroups. Following the break-up of ELP, circa 1979, Emerson had modest success with Emerson, Lake & Powell in the 1980s as well as with 3, with the album To the Power of Three.

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