Joan Armatrading Quotes

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

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • True
  • Reality

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
  • Actor
  • Just

• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Game

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Selfish

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Job
  • Remember

• I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Giving

• Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Serious

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

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • People