Keith Emerson Quotes

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

  Keith Emerson

  Kids, Parent, Happenings

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• I consider everything I compose a gift.

  Keith Emerson

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• You've got to keep things flying.

  Keith Emerson

  Flying

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• I've gone through hell and back.

  Keith Emerson

  Hell And Back, Gone, Hell

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• We can all put weight on or lose weight.

  Keith Emerson

  Weight, American Diet, Diets

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

  Keith Emerson

  Play, Long, Listening

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• 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.

  Keith Emerson

  Teacher, Children, Son

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

  Keith Emerson

  Sister, Brother, Children

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

  Keith Emerson

  Years, Europe, Orchestra

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

  Keith Emerson

  Unique, Remains, Distinctive

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• 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

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• 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.

  Keith Emerson

  Names, America, Broken

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

  Keith Emerson

  Leadership, Leader, Band

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• 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

  Nice, Trying, Notes

  "Readers recommend: songs featuring the organ" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2015.

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

  Keith Emerson

  Mother, I Love My Mother, Suitable

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• 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.

  Keith Emerson

  Unhappy, Sound, Kind

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• 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.

  Keith Emerson

  Country, Player, Bass

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

  Keith Emerson

  Ifs

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

  Keith Emerson

  Photography, Want, Photograph

  "Harris Online", www.harrisonline.com. October 4, 1997.

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

  Keith Emerson

  Kids, Want, Proud

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

  Keith Emerson

  Son, Kind, My Son

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

  Keith Emerson

  Journey, Has Beens, Ifs

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