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Joan Armatrading

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

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A.E. Samaan

"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."

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A.E. Samaan

"I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years."

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A.E. Samaan

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

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A.E. Samaan

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."

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A.E. Samaan

"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."

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A.E. Samaan

"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."

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A.E. Samaan

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

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A.E. Samaan

"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."

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A.E. Samaan

"If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger."

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"But I've consistently worked for 10 years."

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

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

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Joan Armatrading
"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."

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

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

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Joan Armatrading
"Writing music is just something that I was born to do."

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

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

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

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