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Ian Anderson Quotes

British - Musician | August 10, 1947 -

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.

Life Growing Young Kind Living Idea

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

Money Feel Know Right Audience Some

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Children Small Irritating Terrible

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.

Live Identity Performance Feel Will

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

Great Rock Mean Pretty Like Some

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Creative People Find Some People

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.

Best Money Hotel Musicians Too Much

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

Brain Doing Little Fires Tour Thing

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Money Purpose Me Lost Instilled Any

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Life Getting Older Thought Retirement

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, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

Writing Thought You Go Spontaneous

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.

Best Purpose Think Play Try Radio

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