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Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson
British Musician
Born: Aug 10, 1947
Great Music People Think Time You
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. Ian Anderson
Experience Light Ethics Mind Own Sense My Own Facts Make Make Up Up Personal Available
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. Ian Anderson
Life Fight Waiting Everyday Lies Seek Within Begin Which Your
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 that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute. Ian Anderson
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. Ian Anderson
Music Money About Pocket Stealing Lot Children Pop Pop Music
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 racks of blue denim. Ian Anderson
Today Christ Back Our Would Brown He Came Go Overturn Get Blue Store Jean Nearest Jesus Jesus Christ
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. Ian Anderson
Once Mine Would Wear Boring See Brown Only Could Instead Like Audience Article Blue Any Just Themselves Persuade Pair Awful
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green. Ian Anderson
Myself Guitar Thought Clapton Scene Arena Never Suppose Excursion Came Were Eric Eric Clapton End Green Same Going Decided Means Electric Electric Guitar Fully Peter Early Started Playing
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. Ian Anderson
Politicians Our Promise Status Status Quo Fail Always May Quo Us
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar. Ian Anderson
Time Construction Natural Guitar Flute Solos Faculties Were Lines Surrogate Did Exploit Skills Used Based Riffs Play Playing
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 rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. Ian Anderson
Buy Music People Loan Think Once Drawer Plug Rather Tend Individual Never Disappear Attention Attention Spans Tracks Friend iTunes Than Listen Short Again Spans Them Then Really Whole Download Watch Album
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper. Ian Anderson
Management First Style Think Else Everything Everything Else Proper Had Over Supportive Talent Hall Rock Rock And Roll Foremost Fame Very American Roll Right
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 or even as a child. Ian Anderson
Life Music Church My Life Wish Teenager Classical Classical Music Only Had Came Heard Child Really Even
When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys. Ian Anderson
Age Cats School Girl Young Seven Out About Ten Guys More Like Comfortable Felt Boy Dogs Than Hanging Just Eight Preferred Really Eleven
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people. Ian Anderson
Music Me You Grateful People Think Other Ways Detail Someone Computer Between Days Around iPhone iPod Off Very Models Personal Owned Listen Which Room Far Hard Laptop Who Switch
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman. Ian Anderson
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older. Ian Anderson
Life Young Older Living Possibility Kind Outcomes Examine Rather Idea Like Ordinary Ordinary Life Growing
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 identity. Ian Anderson
Will Live Favorite About Cases Determined Recorded Songs Feel Performance Most Identity How Tull Them Live Performance Jethro
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line. Ian Anderson
Best Musicians Money Too Much Band Too Our Top Negotiate See Seems Taken Tours Hotel Rock Deals Rock Musicians Line Off Very Want Much Flight Inclination Income Among Carefree
I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets. Ian Anderson
Tour Fires Budgets Doing Brain Little Thing
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule. Ian Anderson
Best Try Single Think Please Rule Those Releasing Out Something Purpose Write Songs Occasionally Been Encouraged Get Anybody Really Radio Ever Play Specifically Set

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