Jon Anderson Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

I love X-Games music.

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

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

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

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.