When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 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
