Keith Emerson British Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I've ever played in my life.

We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

What we're doing is a retrospective, a refined look at how far we've come in what's known as progressive music and investigate and explore that.

What can you do? You've gotta move on.

I'm probably too forgiving sometimes. You have to understand that when you have a commitment to do a tour, you have to keep everything on an up level.

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.