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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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"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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"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."

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"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."

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"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."

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"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."

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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

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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."
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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."
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"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."
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"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
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"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
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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."
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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."
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