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The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Jon Anderson

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Jon Anderson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 25
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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John Roy Anderson
Cruelty
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
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Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
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The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
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War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
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My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.
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Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
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Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.
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We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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Everybody wants to be American, it seems I travel enough to know.
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I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.
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It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
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