Jon Anderson Quotations

We've always been known as a football school, but that didn't really bother us. We just wanted to win and do this. We came together as a team and got it done.

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.

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Large companies from out-of-state still look at the Mormon factor and wonder if they can conduct business here. But with the Provo Airport gearing up, and if we get regular scheduled flights, that would help our growth.

My response to them is that?s looking backwards,

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

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.

We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.

We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.

The demand is going to come later and be stretched over an extended period of time.

We came out and kind of panicked a little bit.

We want to go national. Were interested in exposing the band as much as possible.

You have a growing network and the computers need to be advanced. Most counties have a network administrator and staff.

The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me,

They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.

Its because it is about playing music together and enjoying it. Other groups are so caught up in getting from this point to that point, not the music. This is about the music. Collectively we have the maturity to handle this and see it through now.

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.

I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me.

Homebuilding reached levels that the industry did not expect.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I love X-Games music.

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.

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.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

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?

There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

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.

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

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

The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.

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.

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

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.

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

This state of independence shall be!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The major factor in lumber and structural-panel demand in North America is new housing.

The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.