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… — 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 couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do. — 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
