Ian Anderson Quotes (16 Quotes)

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

(The flute is) an instrument that doesn't lend itself very readily to rock music. It's a gentle and sensitive instrument. To make it work at rock 'n roll levels, you really have to push it pretty hard.

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.

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

It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well as creating the employment opportunities for the local kids to leave school and get a proper job.

Another tea-time, another day older.

Everyone in the community pitches in.

Come with me to the Winged Isle Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.

In raising the consciousness of the public to the plight of many small, wild cats, the Bengal and some other hybrids can be like a signpost pointing the way to a broad and unselfish commitment to save not only endangered species but those whose fate may also one day become inevitable.

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

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

One of the things that makes it just like rock 'n roll is it is quite a difficult business to budget for,

Give us Direction the best of goodwill Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.

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.

In the past two weeks our reservations have increased by 49 percent compared to this time last year.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.