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I love X-Games music.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Cruelty
Poetry Is
Secret
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This state of independence shall be!
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Independence
States
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The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Powerful
Sun
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Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Education
Believe
Fool
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Music Is
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Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Future
Jewels
Light
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There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Choices
Ready
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You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Education
Answers
Want
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Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Healing
Heart
Sweet
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Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Travel
Enough
Knows
Seems
Want
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We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Giving
Our World
Sun
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Jazz
Writing
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Havens
People
Want
Life Time People
Suppose
Some People
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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Wise
Song
Sweet
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I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Great Moments
Moments
Musician
Life Great My Life
Passport
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Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Bored
Fashion
People
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There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Creator
Reason
Simple
Understanding
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
America
People
World
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Optimistic
Choices
Optimism
Pessimistic
Thinking
Choice
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Relationship
Eye
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Don't Care
Long
Making Money
Managers
Rocks
Money World Long
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Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Energy
Fascinating
Pandora
Pandora's Box
People
Vehicle
Box
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Romantic
Mystery
Wish
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Smile
Ideas
Perfectly Good
Shopping
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Giving
Venture
Years
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Tattoo
Warrior
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Alive
Spiritual
World
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Beautiful
Creating
Life Love Time
Beautiful Home
Great Life
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Divine
Just Do It
Keys
Reason Why
Way
Discover
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Spiritual
Want
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You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Conscious
Ideas
Urges
Life Beautiful Your
Accordingly
Beautiful Thing
Life Is A
Magnify
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Christ
Divine
Sacred
Spiritual
Plan
Sing
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Records
Sound
Chops
Joe
Tex
Whoever
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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.'
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
America
People
Thanks
World
Corrupt
Younger People
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Entertainment
Modern Technology
Visual
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Get Better
People
Waste
Success Believe Yourself
Believed
Success Is
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Technology
Song
Thinking
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Blessed
Died
Jane
Life Changing
Wake Up
Wife
Nearly
Survive
To Survive
Wake
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Life God Power
Human Being
Let Go
Preconceived
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Life
Song
Teaching
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Becoming
Conscience
Consciousness
Evolve
Higher
Ideas
Letting Go
Perceive
Daunting
Global
Let Go
Onion
Unravel
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Power
Design
Ambition
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I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Hands
Play
Teaching
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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.
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Best
Business
Men
War
Angst
Big Business
Doubt
Levels
Men And Women
People
Trying
Wonderful
Wounded
Come
Lot
Going
Big
Being
Back
Out
Many
Eventually
Unfortunately
Many Levels
Soldiers
Wonderful People
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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?
Jon Anderson / Singer-Songwriter
Not Good Enough
People
Thinking
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