Ian Anderson's Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.