Top 42 Joan 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. Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it falls.
M. Gungor
#3. We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces
the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
Gabrielle Roth
#4. 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
#5. Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.
Cesar Chavez
#6. If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee Williams
#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. I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
David Bowie
#10. In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.
Joan Armatrading
#11. The look of impressed wonder made my inner teenager lock himself in the bathroom with a Playboy.
Amber L. Johnson
#13. 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
#14. 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
#17. There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
Jodi Picoult
#18. 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
#19. Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
Joan Armatrading
#21. Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.
Joan Armatrading
#22. 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
#23. So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.
Joan Armatrading
#24. 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
#25. Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205
J.R. Ward
#26. 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
#28. Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.
Keith Buckley
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.
Rokia Traore
#33. Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.
Joan Armatrading
#34. I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
Joan Armatrading
#35. Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
Joan Armatrading
#36. My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
Joan Armatrading
#37. 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
#38. Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.
Joan Armatrading
#39. I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.
Joan Armatrading
#40. 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
#41. It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'
Jessalyn Gilsig
#42. Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Joan Armatrading
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