Jon Anderson

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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
Collection: Fear
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You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.
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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.
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
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I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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I love X-Games music.
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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.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
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I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.
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There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are all in Christ's 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 that's what I do.
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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.'
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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Collection: Music
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You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
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Collection: Education
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We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
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Collection: Years
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Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.
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Collection: Sweet
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There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!
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Collection: Choices
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Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
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Collection: Education
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This state of independence shall be!
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Collection: Independence
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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.
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Collection: Spiritual
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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.
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Collection: Spiritual
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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Collection: Thinking
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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
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Collection: Wise
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Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.
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Collection: Fashion
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
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Collection: Relationship
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We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.
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Collection: Our World
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The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
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Collection: Powerful
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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Collection: Secret
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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.
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Collection: Song
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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.
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Collection: Ambition
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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.
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Collection: Romantic
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Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
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Collection: Future
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
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Collection: Christmas
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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
Collection: Teaching
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
- Jon Anderson
Collection: Tattoo