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Ian Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 10
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Ian Scott Anderson
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More quotes by Ian Anderson
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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
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.
Ian Anderson
It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
Ian Anderson
Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
Ian Anderson
I'm really terrible with small children they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
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.
Ian Anderson
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Ian Anderson
Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.
Ian Anderson
