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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Ian Anderson

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Ian Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 10
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Singer-Songwriter
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Ian Scott Anderson
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold
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I'm really terrible with small children they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.
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I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
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Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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