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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.

Ian Anderson

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Ian Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 10
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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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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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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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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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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'm really terrible with small children they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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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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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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Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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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.
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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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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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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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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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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 make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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