Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson
John Roy "Jon" Andersonis an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the co-founder and former lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes and his solo career, for which he has collaborated with numerous artists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth25 October 1944
secret cruelty poetry-is
The secret of poetry is cruelty.
records want sound
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.
life song teaching
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.
ambition power design
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.
relationship dream eye
This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
christmas perfectly-good shopping
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
future light jewels
Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
education believe fool
Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
romantic dream wish
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.
want enough knows
Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
rocks long band
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.
life-changing blessed wife
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.
calls flies lakes time tying wondering year
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.
bother came football known team together win
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.