A Quote by Gavin Esler

I never have met any heroes - except one. The exception is Ian Anderson, flute player extraordinaire, creative musical talent for more than 40 years, and the man most associated with the band Jethro Tull.

Gavin Esler

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Gavin Esler
Scottish - Journalist
Born: February 27, 1953

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

Bruce Dickinson

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is now a good friend, and the thing that strikes you about him is that he's all about details.

Gavin Esler

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

Ian Anderson

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

Tony Iommi

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

W. Somerset Maugham

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

Ian Anderson

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Richard Roeper

One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.

Ivan Moody

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

Gavin Esler

Every time I met any of my heroes I was disappointed - the exception was Joe Strummer, who was like an uncle to me.

Manu Chao

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

Josef Koudelka

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

Patrick Stump

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

Steve Vai

Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.

Kip Winger

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.