Quotes from Keith Emerson

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

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.

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

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

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

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.

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 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 consider everything I compose a gift.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You've got to keep things flying.

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.

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

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

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

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.

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.