Ian Anderson
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Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it... TAYLOR HAWKINS ALICE COOPER CHRISTINE MCVIE The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing ... LUKA SULIC DAVID COSTABILE BILLY CORGAN KODI SMIT-MCPHEE We wanted to bring a little more rock 'n' roll to Rock the Block. BRANDON BROWN KEITH RICHARDS I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '... JOHN CALE Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city. AHMET ERTEGUN We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome. BOB HUGHES LUPE FIASCO FLEA RICK SPRINGFIELD DAVE GROHL RICHARD NEVILLE NICOLAS CAGE I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl... GEORGE THOROGOOD RALPH ELLISON ARISTOTLE I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. JON LANDAU He liked Kid Rock and most rock 'n' roll. EDWARD GOSWICK There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. NEIL YOUNG All the traditional iconography around rock 'n' roll - sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - wasn't so much... BRAD TOLINSKI Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whate... JUICY J If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It kee... HANK BALLARD CRCR ... goodbye to the rock 'n' roll era. STEPHEN MALKMUS ANNETTE FUNICELLO TINA TURNER MANUEL PUIG NICOLAS CAGE Books about books is like it's gotta be rock 'n' roll music if you wanna dance with me. JOHN ARNOLD (She) is classically trained, but amazing enough, she's got a rock 'n' roll heart. She was playing b... GRAEME EDGE Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ... MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON When you put people right up there on stage, it's as unique of an experience you will ever have. Not... DALE SKJERSETH MARILYN MONROE IAN ANDERSON I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship... ADRIAN MITCHELL NIKKI SIXX JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH BILL BRUFORD You can't stop rock-n-roll! DEE SNIDER WARREN CUCCURULLO rock 'n' roll of comedy. ANDREW CLAY rock 'n' roll of comedy. ANDREW DICE CLAY JULIETTE LEWIS Unlike the Hard Rock ... we really delve into the story of rock and roll. DENNIS BARRIE TINA TURNER We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe... ANDY BIERSACK Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is... DAN AUERBACH Nikki Sudden believed in rock 'n' roll — and how hard was that in this cold new millennium?. DAVE KUSWORTH Nikki Sudden believed in rock 'n' roll and how hard was that in this cold new millennium?. DAVE KUSWORTH I didn't really like rock-'n'-roll that much -- I was more into the funky music. But then I love all... HAROLD COWART VANCE PACKARD I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' ro... ADAM LAMBERT Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia. ALVARO ENRIGUE Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and... TONY JAMES When I write, I'm trying to put what I love into music. Everything through my life, the music that i... ANDREW YORK JON BON JOVI TRE COOL Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself. LARRY WILLIAMS BILLY GIBBONS To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the musi... AMIRI BARAKA If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll. GRACE SLICK rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture. ROBERT HUNTER I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything. TAYLOR HAWKINS BRUCE DICKINSON VAL KILMER PATTI SMITH ELTON JOHN ARETHA FRANKLIN ARETHA FRANKLIN OZZY OSBOURNE Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me. AL JOURGENSEN JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll. JOEY SANTIAGO ELTON JOHN BILL BRUFORD BILLY JOEL CARLOS SANTANA
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not a greeting...but a proclamation;
no... ANDERSON A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s... IAN FRAZIER IAN FLEMING There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical. IAN WILLIAMS IAN MCSHANE Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity. IAN DUNBAR Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. JANIS IAN I'm still swimming. IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do... IAN THORPE I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw... IAN THORPE Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ... IAN SOMERHALDER I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. IAN SOMERHALDER You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act... IAN SOMERHALDER The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea... IAN SOMERHALDER I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be... IAN SOMERHALDER Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun... IAN SOMERHALDER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or... IAN SOMERHALDER Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ... IAN SOMERHALDER I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut... IAN SOMERHALDER Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort. IAN SOMERHALDER I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro... IAN SOMERHALDER I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho... IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy. IAN SOMERHALDER You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life. IAN SOMERHALDER There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. IAN SOMERHALDER IAN SMITH IAN SMITH IAN SMITH IAN SMITH Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually. IAN SCHRAGER My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,... IAN SCHRAGER I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative. IAN SCHRAGER The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'... IAN SCHRAGER I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,... IAN SCHRAGER Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. IAN SCHRAGER I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons. IAN SCHRAGER Good design is good business. IAN SCHRAGER People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ... IAN RUSH I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. IAN RUSH I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back... IAN RUSH I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to... IAN RUSH I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I... IAN RUSH The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit. IAN RUSH There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu... IAN RUSH This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&... IAN RUSH I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year. IAN RUSH You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well. IAN RUSH It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place. IAN RUSH I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling. IAN RUSH Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ... IAN RUSH Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. IAN RUSH I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia... IAN RUSH I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country. IAN RUSH In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot... IAN RUSH You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens. IAN RUSH I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ... IAN RANKIN Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction. IAN RANKIN No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'... IAN RANKIN My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s... IAN RANKIN You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ... IAN RANKIN I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and... IAN RANKIN I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I... IAN RANKIN The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo... IAN RANKIN I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think... IAN RANKIN I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i... IAN RANKIN At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide... IAN RANKIN I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in... IAN RANKIN I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me... IAN MILLAR It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the... IAN MILLAR I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic... IAN MILLAR I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I... IAN MILLAR When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye... IAN MILLAR The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th... IAN MILLAR Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and... IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen. IAN MILLAR IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now. IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women. IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park... IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ... IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm... IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha... IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had. IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and... IAN MCLAGAN What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. IAN MCLAGAN You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know... IAN MCLAGAN I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis... 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IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g... IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time. IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl... IAN MCDIARMID If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an... IAN MCDIARMID That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne... IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ... IAN MCDIARMID
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to chang... 
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and i... 
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. 
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. 
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and m... 
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at a... 
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,... 
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. 
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ... 
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't ... 
If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk ... 
Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to b... 
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, eithe... 
I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll. 
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing. 
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesse... 
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about ... 
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands. 
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ... 
Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots. 
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. 
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music a... 
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting. 
Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think. 
There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star, 
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes... 
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. 
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. 
One of the things that makes it just like rock 'n roll [is it is] quite a difficult business to budg... 
How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget? 
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right... 
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really. 
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll. 
My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus... 
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. 
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Tryin... 
Let the rock 'n' roll outfits commence! 
Rock 'n' roll and automobiles have always had this synergistic connection, 
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll. 
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... 
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? 
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlestick... 
I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. 
Rock music is not meant to be perfect. 
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right tim... 
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps w... 
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really. 
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says... 
My memoir is completely not a rock 'n' roll wife's memoir, 
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiat... 
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans d... 
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. 
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. 
I always try to be reasonable and effective. 
Every human being makes mistakes. 
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan... 
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m... 
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for... 
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth... 
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... 
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you... 
I don't hold grudges. 
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r... 
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.