It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional. — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry. — Ian Anderson Copy Share
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… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
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,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional. — Ian Anderson Copy Share
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson Copy Share
