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Ian Anderson

(1947) Composer United Kingdom

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Ian Anderson is a composer from the United Kingdom, best known for Moon Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip.

Quick Facts About Ian Anderson

Born: August 10, 1947
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Composer
Notable works: Moon Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip

About Ian Anderson

Ian Scott Anderson is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist, flautist, and acoustic guitarist of the British rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he has been the only constant member since the band's founding in 1967. A multi-instrumentalist, Anderson also plays harmonica, mandolin, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone and a variety of whistles.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Member of the Order of the British Empire honorary doctor of Heriot-Watt University

Quotes by Ian Anderson · Page 2

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

Failing

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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…

Always

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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe…

Art

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I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a…

Israel

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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…

Children

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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store…

Blue

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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago,…

1960s

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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Generosity

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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a…

Array

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But the tune ends too soon for us all

Ends

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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience…

Always

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and…

American

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I've always been fond of acoustic music.

Acoustic music

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“It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now.”

Good morning

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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first…

Album

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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.

Being happy

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I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause,…

Audience

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I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do…

Across

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Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time…

About

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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or…

Creative

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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the…

Boys

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I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully…

Arena

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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

Brain

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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar…

Alternatives

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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try…

Anybody

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