Jethro Tull Quotes

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.

For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.

He is the God of nothing, if that is all you can see. He is the God of everything, he's inside you and me.

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors.

I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.