Ian Anderson (musician)

Ian Scott Anderson (born 10 August 1947) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist and flautist. He is most famous as the head of the rock band Jethro Tull.

I may make you feel but I can't make you think…

Quotes

• The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having been naughty.
  • GTK Ep 899. Broadcast 12th August 1974, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed by Gary Hyde.

• I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy.
  • Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 272. CN 5585. 

Aqualung (1971)

• Oh father high in heaven — smile down upon your son
  Who's busy with his money games — his women and his gun.
  • "Hymn 43"
• In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

  2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man.

  3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.

  4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind.

  5 And these lesser men Man did cast into the void. And some were burned; and some were put apart from their kind.

  6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth.

  7 But as all these things did come to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung.

  8 And man saw it not.

  9 But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking.

  • (text on back of album cover)

Thick as a Brick (1972)

• I may make you feel but I can't make you think
  Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.
  • "Thick As a Brick".