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 AndersonThe flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Ian AndersonBring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.
Ian AndersonI'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian AndersonIn writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Ian Anderson