Joan Armatrading

'Joan Armatrading' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Armatrading, Joan Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America

  2004, role: actress , character name: Joan Armatrading
• Play in Full Screen Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America

  2004, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America

  2004, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen The Last of the Gentleman Producers

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Joan Armatrading: All the Way from America

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 1996

  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 1989

  1989, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Secret Policeman's Third Ball

  1987, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Prince's Trust Rock Gala

  1982, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Joan Armatrading:

"Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet."

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

"When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I've always written in a free, unencumbered way."

Joan Armatrading