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I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Way
Written
Unencumbered
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Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Born
Writing
Writing Music
Just Something
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Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Hour
Meet
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Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Good Day
Knows
Song
Day One
Good Song
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Yesterday I was playing Beethovens fifth, because I love that.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Fifth
Yesterday
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Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Fifth
Yesterday
Beethoven
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Romantic
Baroque
Baroque Music
Romantic Love
Classical
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Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Age
Persons
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I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Goes On
Process
Perform
Tour
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My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Mother
Song
Writing
Bought
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So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Tours
Stayed
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Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Editing
Self
Writing
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When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Obsessed
Obsession
Writing
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When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Obsessed
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I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
Including
Influence
Musician
People
Big Influence
Musicians
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In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.
Joan Armatrading / Singer-Songwriter
America
Thinking
Unreal
Watches
Totally
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Capture
Inspiration
Tends
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Crew
Sound
Together
Travelling
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Exception
Great People Who
Talented
Great Thing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Argument
Important
Proximity
Want
Time Great Important
Close Proximity
Great Deal
Tour
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dvds
Electric
Guitar
Together
Acoustic
Tours
Guitars
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dancing
Enjoyed
Lovely
Nelson
Tribute
Gig
Mandela
Occasion
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Fun
People
Work Me Fun
Talented
Have Fun
Talented People
Tour
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Order
Records
Writing
Arrange
Organic
Tour
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Changed
Anyway
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Bunch
Eight
Nice
Years
Time Always Me
Time Me People
Tour
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Combination
Inspiration
People
Relate
Waiting
Writing
Different People
Me Looking People
React
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Achievement
Enough
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
People
Rich
Women Enough People
Achievements
Area
More People
Recognised
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You find what you are best at and stick to it. 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 / Singer-Songwriter
People
Trying
Years
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Challenges
Discipline
Real
Myself I Am Way
Degree
Different Kind
Expressing
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