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" A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. "
Ian Anderson
Music
Children
Money
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" 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
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Hanging
Young
" 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it. "
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Time
Think
" I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music. "
Ian Anderson
Rock
American
Music
" I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas. "
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Observer
Much
" 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. "
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Young
Growing
Kind
" I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. "
Ian Anderson
I Wish
Happy
I Can
" I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for. "
Ian Anderson
Community
People
Up
" 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
Church
Child
" Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. "
Ian Anderson
Within
Everyday
Life
" I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute. "
Ian Anderson
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Microphone
Made
" Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional. "
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Great
Mean
Pretty
" 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. "
Ian Anderson
Music
Mind
Art
" I've always been fond of acoustic music. "
Ian Anderson
Always
Music
Fond
" I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. "
Ian Anderson
Small
Terrible
Children
" 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. "
Ian Anderson
Musicians
I Am
Time
" I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets. "
Ian Anderson
Thing
Brain
Doing
" I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. "
Ian Anderson
Light
Mind
Facts
" As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought. "
Ian Anderson
Retirement
Life
Thought
" As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music. "
Ian Anderson
Music
People
Think
" 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
Identity
Feel
Will
" 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
Money
Rock
" I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment. "
Ian Anderson
Always
Space
Think
" There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little. "
Ian Anderson
Authority
You
Drawing
" 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
Green
Thought
Myself
" 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
Play
Skills
Construction
" I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician. "
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Song
You
Creative
" We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. "
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People
Life
World
" Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty. "
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Going
You
Emotional
" 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
Radio
Purpose
Play