Ian Anderson Quotes
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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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
