The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players. Ian Anderson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. Ian Anderson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ian Anderson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they’re spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it’s supposed to be going. Ian Anderson Read Quote
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. Ian Anderson Read Quote
