Top 35 Jon Anderson Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Jon Anderson

2. “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

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

— Jon Anderson

4. “We’re physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.”

— Jon Anderson

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Fashion has changed, and it’s continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.”

— Jon Anderson

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

— Jon Anderson

10. “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

11. “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

12. “There’s only one reason we live. It’s very simple. To find the creator. That’s just my understanding.”

— Jon Anderson

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

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

— Jon Anderson

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

— Jon Anderson

20. “The secret of poetry is cruelty.”

— Jon Anderson

21. “Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.”

— Jon Anderson

22. “I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.”

— Jon Anderson

23. “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

24. “Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music’s great.”

— Jon Anderson

25. “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

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

— Jon Anderson

27. “I love X-Games music.”

— Jon Anderson

28. “Some people haven’t got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.”

— Jon Anderson

29. “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

30. “Tell me I’m a fool. I would not know how to believe it.”

— Jon Anderson

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

— Jon Anderson

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

— Jon Anderson

33. “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

34. “One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.”

— Jon Anderson

35. “This state of independence shall be!”

— Jon Anderson