"I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing……" — Ian Anderson
"I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts."
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46 Quotes by Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson has 46 quotes on this site.
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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…
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from 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…
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It's only the giving that makes you what you are.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very…
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music…
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal…
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made…
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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