Albums Quote by Ian Anderson

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

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

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

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

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

— Ian Anderson

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

— Ian Anderson

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

— Ian Anderson

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

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

'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

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

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

— Ian Anderson