Armatrading Quotes

#1. My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

Katy B

#2. All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Joan Armatrading

#3. Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

Joan Armatrading

#4. I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

Joan Armatrading

#5. Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians.

Joan Armatrading

#6. What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

Cynthia Nixon

#7. So if you're on tour for eight months, a year ... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

Joan Armatrading

#8. When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

Joan Armatrading

#9. In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Joan Armatrading

#10. I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

Florence Welch

#11. Well, got any relish?" "No, ma'am." "Tomato ketchup?" "No, ma'am." "And they call this a gormay paradise,

Terry Pratchett

#12. This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

Joan Armatrading

#13. Be patient and wait for due harvest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Joan Armatrading

#15. So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

Joan Armatrading

#16. Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

Joan Armatrading

#17. Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Joan Armatrading

#18. Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

Gayle Forman

#19. Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Joan Armatrading

#20. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

Joan Armatrading

#21. Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

Toba Beta

#22. Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Joan Armatrading

#23. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#24. One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

Joan Armatrading

#25. That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

Joan Armatrading

#26. I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

Joan Armatrading

#27. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound

#28. So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Joan Armatrading

#29. I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Joan Armatrading

#30. Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Joan Armatrading

#31. Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Joan Armatrading

#32. My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Joan Armatrading

#33. When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Joan Armatrading

#34. Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

William Shakespeare

#35. Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Steve Allen

#36. Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ...

Marcus Aurelius

#37. Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Joan Armatrading

#38. I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

Joan Armatrading

#39. It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Joan Armatrading