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“Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland”
-- Ian Anderson

#Song #Sunshine #Dark
“I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Happiness #Being Happy #Player
“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Children #Rock N Roll #Pockets
“In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Song #Identity #Determined
“It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Purpose #Lost #Given
“Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Mean #Rocks #Berries
“Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Promise #May #Failing
“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

#Player #Numbers #Guitar
“Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Touring
“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

#Thinking #Dvds #Track
“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

#Causes #Reassuring #Spending
“I've always been fond of acoustic music.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Acoustic Music #Acoustics
“I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Ideas
“If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Jesus #Blue #Today
“It's only the giving that makes you what you are.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Giving
“Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Lying #Fighting #Waiting
“As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Retirement #Dark #Getting Older
“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

#Children #Teenager #Wish
“I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Light #Mind #Facts
“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

#Chicago #Flutes #Made
“I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Fire #Brain #Littles
“Another tea-time, another day older.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Tea #Another Day #Tea Time
“Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Children #Father #Age
“Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Nature #Gold #Lines
“I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Israel #Picnics #Thames
“Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Horse #Sky #Weather
“Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Blue #Denim #Awful
“Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold”
-- Ian Anderson

#Secret #Way
“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 being naughty.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Mother #Cat #Naughty
“Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.”
-- Ian Anderson

#Father #Gun #Games

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