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

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

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

Gene Clark, American Musician

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"We became the songs we wrote."

Barry Mann, American Musician

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Explore more quotes by Joan Armatrading

"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."

Work

"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."

Discipline

"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."

Dance

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

People

"I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process."

Love

"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."

Time

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

Mother

"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."

Music

"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."

Sound

"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."

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