Top 40 Jethro Tull Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.”

— Jethro Tull

2. “The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.”

— Jethro Tull

3. “He’s watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.”

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4. “In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.”

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5. “Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.”

— Jethro Tull

6. “My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.”

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7. “The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.”

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8. “She’s a warm fart at Christmas.”

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9. “Did you ever get the feeling that the story’s too damn real?”

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10. “Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.”

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11. “Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?”

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12. “Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.”

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13. “Everyone is from somewhere, even if you’ve never been there.”

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14. “She’s a nice girl, but her bad girl’s better.”

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15. “I’ll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.”

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16. “Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.”

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17. “God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.”

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18. “Everyone’s saved, we’re in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.”

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19. “I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.”

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20. “He is the God of nothing, if that is all you can see. He is the God of everything, he’s inside you and me.”

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21. “I’ll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.”

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22. “Songs from the wood make you feel much better.”

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23. “Join the crazed institution of the stars.”

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24. “Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.”

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25. “You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you’ll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.”

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26. “The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it’s under control.”

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27. “We’ll have Superman for President, let Robin save the day.”

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28. “Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.”

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29. “Actor of the low IQ, let’s hear your view.”

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30. “The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist’s fall.”

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31. “I’m a tiger when I want love, but I’m a snake if we disagree.”

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32. “He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.”

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33. “A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.”

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34. “How can you laugh when your mother’s hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?”

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35. “In your pomp and all your glory, you’re a poorer man than me.”

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36. “Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.”

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37. “And a bearded lady said to me...”

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38. “Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.”

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39. “Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening’s song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.”

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40. “Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.”

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41. “Roll us down the mountain and I’m sure the fatman would win.”

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42. “To tell the truth, I’d scare me too.”

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43. “I don’t know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.”

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44. “Too many temples where we could worship the beast.”

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45. “The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.”

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