Ian Anderson Quotes

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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.
• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
• If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the…
• It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
• Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
• As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager…
• I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
• I've always been fond of acoustic music.
• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded…
• It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
• Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
• The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes…

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