Jon Anderson famous quotes

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
-- Jon Anderson

#Music #Writing #Moments

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
-- Jon Anderson

#Keys #Way #Life Is

There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'
-- Jon Anderson

#America #People #World

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
-- Jon Anderson

#Beautiful #Letting Go #Ideas

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
-- Jon Anderson

#War #Men #People

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
-- Jon Anderson

#Optimistic #Thinking #Optimism

I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.
-- Jon Anderson

#Beautiful #Home #Creating

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.
-- Jon Anderson

#Simple #Understanding #Reason

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
-- Jon Anderson

#America #People #World

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
-- Jon Anderson

#People #Energy

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
-- Jon Anderson

#Believe #People #Get Better

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
-- Jon Anderson

#Beautiful #Music Is

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.
-- Jon Anderson

#Life Changing #Blessed #Wife

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
-- Jon Anderson

#Rocks #Long #Band

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
-- Jon Anderson

#Want #Enough

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
-- Jon Anderson

#People #Want

We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.
-- Jon Anderson

#Spiritual #Journey #Energy

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
-- Jon Anderson

#Spiritual #Alive #World

Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
-- Jon Anderson

#Life #Song #Teaching

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
-- Jon Anderson

#Relationship #Dream #Eye

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.
-- Jon Anderson

#Sweet #Healing #Heart

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.
-- Jon Anderson

#Romantic #Dream #Wish

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
-- Jon Anderson

#Education #Believe #Fool

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
-- Jon Anderson

#Education #Answers #Want

Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
-- Jon Anderson

#Future #Light #Jewels

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
-- Jon Anderson

#Christmas #Shopping #Ideas

I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
-- Jon Anderson

#Teaching #Hands #Play

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
-- Jon Anderson

#Tattoo #Warrior #Artist

The secret of poetry is cruelty.
-- Jon Anderson

#Secret #Cruelty #Poetry Is

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
-- Jon Anderson

#Sound #Band #Records

I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.
-- Jon Anderson

#Song #Technology #Thinking

I love X-Games music.
-- Jon Anderson

#Games

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.
-- Jon Anderson

#Ambition #Power #Design

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
-- Jon Anderson

#Wise #Song #Sweet