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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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Ian Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 10
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Ian Scott Anderson
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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 original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.
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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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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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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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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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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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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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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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I'm really terrible with small children they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.
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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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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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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 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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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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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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