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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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"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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"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."

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"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."

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"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"

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"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."

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"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."

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"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."

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"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."

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"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."

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"One gains more from a fast than a feast."

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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."

Discipline

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

Mother

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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."

Sound

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Joan Armatrading
"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."

Change

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Joan Armatrading
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."

America

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

Love

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Joan Armatrading
"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."

Time

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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

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