first, it's ELP, not ELO
second, you digressed from ELP to some arcane reference to Emerson Boozer
the original context of the quote was as follows: ""what you do should speak so loudly that no one can hear what you say." marv levy who was indirectly quoting Emerson."
By "Emerson", Marv was referring to Ralph Waldo Emerson, a classic American poet & essayist. It looks like you missed that one, BBB