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.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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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.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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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.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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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.
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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.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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This is where God hangs out.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.
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I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
