Jon Anderson Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This state of independence shall be!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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