Quotes by Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson

Another tea-time, another day older.

Another Day

Tea

Tea Time

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

Dark

Getting Older

Retirement

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Coffee

Faces

Men

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.

Age

Children

Father

I don’t think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, ‘Oh, what a clever boy I am!’ I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

Artist

Clever

Successful

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.

Causes

Reassuring

Spending

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.

Growing

Ideas

Ordinary

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.

Eric

Guitar

Mean

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

Brain

Fire

Littles

I’ve always been fond of acoustic music.

Acoustic Music

Acoustics

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Acoustic Music

Acoustics

Age

Another Day

Artist

Berries

Brain

Causes

Challenging The Status Quo

Children

Clever

Coffee

Dark

Determined

Different

Eric

Faces

Father

Fire

Getting Older

Gold

Growing

Guitar

Ideas

Identity

Jobs

Lines

Littles

May

Mean

Men

Nature

Nice

Objectivity

Oboes

Ordinary

Player

Promise

Reassuring

Retirement

Rocks

Song

Spending

Successful

Tea

Tea Time

Thinking

Touring

Wall

War

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Quotes by Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson

Another tea-time, another day older.

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

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

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.

I don’t think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, ‘Oh, what a clever boy I am!’ I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

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.

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.

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

I’ve always been fond of acoustic music.

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