Keith Emerson Quotes

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Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Education
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politics

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Drama

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Hero
  • Romantic
  • Monster

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Strategy
  • Incentives

• Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Boy

• I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Design
  • Movies
  • Costumes

• Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Mum and Dad have come to Sydney to see me off on the two trips to Wimbledon. Each time I thought I mustn't cry 'cos that'll start Mum off. Each time I really bawled, and then she started up.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Cry
  • Started
  • Trips

• When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Nature

• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fans
  • Faculty
  • Fandoms

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

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer