Keith Emerson Quotes
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Marriage is scary to me, man.
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
