Ian Anderson: TOO OLD TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL? NEVER!

Had I only known that Ian Anderson, flaming flutest and driving force behind Jethro Tull, would proceed to complete the following interview without any kind of aid or interference from me whatsoever, I would have immediately jumped up, pulled off my pants and thrown them out the window when he told me he didn't like their color.

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"I hate mindless uniformity. Communism when applied to clothing is right out. What possesses people to dress alike in such a dreary fashion, I can't understand. Clothing is the only sense of expression that the average person has that transcends the immediacy of speech. Right? I mean, you can express yourself verbally, but it's gone. But the clothes you wear, in a temporal sense, they work as long as you're wearing them. And yet people, day after day, come out in their blue denims. It's mediocrity, this level of conformity that seems to defy all reason when they could be saying something about themselves. I think it's symptomatic of people hiding. I look at these masses of people and I see all this blue—it's the color that predominates in my mind.