"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."

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

Keith Emerson

#Nice Quotes #Trying Quotes #Notes Quotes

“I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.”
“When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.”
“I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.”
“The people who donâ€™t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.”
“It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.”
“Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.”
“What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.”
“It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.”

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