88 Quotes by Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

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

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

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

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.

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