Jethro Tull Quotes

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

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Hate, Philosophy

  Song: Teacher, Album: Benefit, 1970

  25 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jethro Tull

  Art, Media, Expectations

  44 Copy quote

• My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

  Jethro Tull

  Deafness, Explanation

  26 Copy quote

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

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  Hero, Mean, Men

  Song: Too Many Too

  5 Copy quote

• All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots.
  His underestimate of the value of manure.

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  Vegetables, Roots, Use

  32 Copy quote

• How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

  Jethro Tull

  Mother, Laughing, Unanswered Questions

  28 Copy quote

• Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

  Jethro Tull

  Friendship, Ears, Fool

  Song: The Witch's Promise, Album: Living In The Past, 1970

  28 Copy quote

• Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

  Jethro Tull

  Philosophy, Ifs

  Song: Another Christmas Song, Album: Rock Island

  7 Copy quote

• Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

  Jethro Tull

  Art, Real, Media

  18 Copy quote

• Songs from the wood make you feel much better.

  Jethro Tull

  Song, Woods, Feels

  Song: Songs from the Wood, 1977

  20 Copy quote

• To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

  Jethro Tull

  Honesty, Scare, Telling The Truth

  Song: I'm Your Gun

  28 Copy quote

• Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

  Jethro Tull

  Running, Clothes, Low Self Esteem

  Song: Aqualung, Album: Aqualung

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Men, Names, Earth

  19 Copy quote

• For the May Day is the great day,
  Sung along the old straight track.
  And those who ancient lines did ley
  Will heed this song that calls them back...
  Pass the cup, and pass the Lady,
  And pass the plate to all who hunger,
  Pass the wit of ancient wisdom,
  Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

  Jethro Tull

  Song, Track, Great Day

  22 Copy quote

• Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

  Jethro Tull

  Men, Hands, Thieves

  20 Copy quote

• Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.

  Jethro Tull

  Underpants

  Song: Lick Your Fingers Clean

  14 Copy quote

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

  Jethro Tull

  Light, Politics, Doers

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

  12 Copy quote

• 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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  Religious, Religion, Ifs

  15 Copy quote

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

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Fall, Angel

  23 Copy quote

• I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors.

  Jethro Tull

  Love You, Hypocrite, Eye

  14 Copy quote

• I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

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  Space, Dating, Making Love

  20 Copy quote

• I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

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  Cups, Darling, Raises

  9 Copy quote

• He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

  Jethro Tull

  Explanation

  Song: Watching Me Watching You

  18 Copy quote

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

  Jethro Tull

  Future, Castles, Moral

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

  6 Copy quote

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

  Jethro Tull

  Friendship, Angel, Disbelief

  13 Copy quote

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